MARILYN MONROE - SETTLEMENT REACHED OVER MONROE'S LAST SITTING

SETTLEMENT REACHED OVER MONROE'S LAST SITTING

A settlement has been reached in the legal battle surrounding the nude and semi-nude photographs taken during MARILYN MONROE's famous Last Sitting.
The seven erotic photos were taken in 1962 by Vogue photographer Bert Stern - just six weeks before the icon's drug-overdose death.
In a lawsuit filed against Michael Weiss and Donald Penny in September (08), Stern claimed the pair attempted to sell him back the snaps 40 years after he loaned them to the former editors of now-defunct magazine Eros.
Stern claimed the photos are worth $100,000 (GBP66,670) each, and was suing for $700,000 (GBP466,670) and $1 million (GBP666,670) in punitive damages and legal fees.
Weiss and Penny's lawyer Jamie Brickell, and Stern's lawyer, Stephen Weingrad, have confirmed the dispute has been settled "amicably".
Nine sets of photos from the transparencies will be produced and sold as a joint project between the parties, according to the Associated Press.