Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, the legendary stars of Romeo and Juliet, have dropped a bombshell lawsuit against Paramount Pictures. The actors, now in their 70s, are accusing the studio of sexual exploitation after being misled into filming a nude scene when they were just teens.Filed on ...
Paramount won’t have to face a lawsuit accusing the studio of sexual abuse over a nude scene in the 1968 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Alison Mackenzie signaled on Thursday that she’ll dismiss the suit, finding claims that the movie depicts sexual acts are...
Buenos Aires-born Hussey was 15 when she and her co-lead Leonard Whiting starred in the Oscar-winning adaptation of William Shakespeare's tragedy. In 2023, the two actors filed a lawsuit against the studio alleging child abuse over a controversial nude scene featuring the pair, who were minors...
Today, in Los Angeles Superior Court, a judge “signaled” she would dismiss the suit, calling the actors’ allegations a “gross mischaracterization” and saying the sequence in question is not “sufficiently sexually suggestive” to rise to the level of child pornography, as the suit claimed....
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting have filed a lawsuit. By Joe AndertonPublished: 05 January 2023Getty Images Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting, the stars of 1968's Romeo and Juliet, are suing studio Paramount over nude scenes featured in the film. The actors, who are now in their 70s, wer...
The two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. Olivia Hussey, then 15 and now 71, and Leonard Whiting, then 16 now 72, filed the suit in Los Angeles County Supe...
The two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. Olivia Hussey, then 15 and now 71, and Leonard Whiting, then 16 now 72, filed the suit in Los Angeles County Superior...
The two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. Olivia Hussey, then 15 and now 71, and Leonard Whiting, then 16 now 72, filed the suit in Los Angeles County Sup...
The two stars of 1968’s “Romeo and Juliet” sued Paramount Pictures for more than $500 million on Tuesday over a nude scene in the film shot when they were teens. Olivia Hussey, then 15 and now 71, and Leonard Whiting, then 16 now 72, filed the suit in Los Angeles County Super...
Olivia Hussey Eisley, star of 1968's 'Romeo and Juliet,' Stephen King's 'It' and 'Psycho IV: The Beginning,' has died. She was 73 years old. Olivia died 'peacefully' at home on Dec. 27 surrounded by her loved ones, according to a post made to her Instagr