Financially-challenged photographer Annie Leibovitz was sued last week by Art Capital Group, the high-end pawn shop that loaned her $24 million last year in exchange for the rights to her photography collection and her collection of real estate holdings in the West Village and upstate New York. It will be some time before we find out whether Leibovitz will get to hang on to her assets, but it seems she's already suffered one minor defeat in court. In a court ruling over whether Getty Images went behind Art Capital's back to negotiate a deal to represent Leibovitz on a freelance basis, New York State's highest court misspelled the name of the "world-renowned photographer" 37 times. Don't you just hate exceptions to the normally reliable "i before e, except after c" rule? [NYS Supreme Court, PDF]
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Annie Leibovitz Can't Win
- Posted at 5:14PM on Aug 11, 2009
Email- Filed Under: Annie Leibovitz, Art Capital Group, Getty Images, Lawsuits
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JRLane
said at 12:59PM on Aug 24, 2009
Ignoring all pleas and requests, Ms. Leibovitz thought nothing of proceeding to knock down her neighbor's support wall and destroying one of our city's most historic blocks. All in the name of expanding the home monument she'd built to herself. So it's not hard to understand how someone could so arrogantly enter into such an odd financial arrangement
and believe herself immune from all consequences. It's called "self entitlement" and is the downfall of many an arrogant soul.
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