WOODY ALLEN - ALLEN SETTLES LAWSUIT FOR $5 MILLION

ALLEN SETTLES LAWSUIT FOR $5 MILLION

Hollywood filmmaker WOODY ALLEN has settled his lawsuit with clothing company AMERICAN APPAREL INC for $5 million (£3.3 million).
The Annie Hall director, 73, filed suit last year (08), claiming advertising chiefs used his likeness on billboards without his consent.
He was depicted dressed as a rabbi in ads placed across New York and Los Angeles.
Standing with lawyers outside of Manhattan federal court on Monday (18May09), Allen told reporters, "I am told the settlement of five million dollars I am being paid is the largest reported amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law."