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'Romeo and Juliet' stars file new lawsuit over nude images in movie

'Romeo and Juliet' stars Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting have filed a new lawsuit against Paramount over nude images of them in the 1968 movie, this time over the Criterion Collection release of it.

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting have revived their Romeo and Juliet lawsuit against Paramount, this time over the recent Criterion Collection home release of the 1968 movie. The photographs cited in this suit are from the same scene at the center of their original lawsuit, which features Hussey and Whiting naked in a bedroom as the titular star-crossed lovers. "We and our new lawyers extended the olive branch to Paramount in hopes that they would settle this legal matter, but unfortunately, it appears that they do not want to take responsibility for their participation in the digital enhancement, production, and distribution of the 1968 film nor for the photos included in that reproduction that were fraudulently and surreptitiously taken," Hussey and Whiting said in a joint statement.

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