Ex-Model Files $10M Suit for Comedy Film’s ‘Lascivious Use’ of Her Photo
A former model who says she was horrified to learn her photo was used as a “masturbatory prop” in the comedy Couples Retreat has sued the movie makers for $10 million.
The suit by Irina Krupnik says she didn’t learn of the “lascivious use of her photo” until after the film was released, the New York Post reports. A character in the movie played by Jon Favreau looks at a brochure featuring the photo to “pleasure himself” while his wife is in the bathroom, the suit says.
Krupnik claims invasion of privacy and defamation by NBC Universal and Universal Pictures, causing her humiliation and damage to her reputation.
Krupnik’s lawyer, Tom Mullaney, told the New York Daily News that his client had signed a release allowing her photo to be sold by stock photo companies, but she never imagined her image would “turn up in some raunchy movie scene.”
The Daily News describes Krupnik as a “ravishing Russian” and says she is now a successful makeup artist.
Hat tip to Pat’s Papers.
