Romeo and Juliet stars come after Criterion over exploitation claims
Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, the stars of 1968's Romeo and Juliet, are coming after both Paramount and The Criterion Collection.
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Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, the stars of 1968's Romeo and Juliet, are coming after both Paramount and The Criterion Collection.
Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were both under the age of 18 when they played the star-crossed lovers in the 1968 adaptation, and have since launched legal action
'Romeo and Juliet' stars Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting have filed a new lawsuit against Paramount over nude images of them in the 1968 movie, this time over the Criterion Collection release of it.
In 1968, Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting were the most famous teenagers in the world thanks to Franco Zeffirelli’s adaptation of “Romeo and Juliet.” In 2023, they sued Paramount for child abuse.
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