Ending a battle over rights to a series of photos — some of them topless — that Cameron Diaz, now 33, posed for when she was an unknown model of 19, last week the lanky blonde movie star won undisclosed damages from Los Angeles photographer John Rutter, 42, for unauthorized commercial use of her name and image.
Superior Court Judge Valerie Baker also dismissed a countersuit filed against the Charlie's Angels, Something About Mary, Being John Malkovich, Shrek star by Rutter.
Severely limiting Rutter's ability to raise funds is the fact that he was sentenced to nearly four years in prison last September for the scheme to blackmail Diaz with the bondage-themed photos. He was convicted of perjury, attempted grand theft, forging Diaz's signature on a 1992 release form and telling the actress that he would publish the topless photos unless she paid him $3.5 million.
Diaz spokesman Brad Cafarelli announced yesterday, "Ms. Diaz obtained a summary judgment against Mr. Rutter for unauthorized commercial use of her name and likeness as well as statutory damages and there is now a permanent injunction in place prohibiting the sale, license or other use of the materials including both the photographs and the videotape in question."
A hearing is pending on whether Rutter should pay Diaz's legal fees for the civil case, which were listed in court documents as totalling $650,000.
Article comments
1 - Bliffle
Are Ms. Diaz' breasts that desirable, that fascinating?
2 - Dawn
They don't appear to be that voluminous, that's for sure.
3 - Christopher Rose
Bliffle: Oh yes.
Dawn: As you ladies sometimes like to say, it ain't the meat it's the motion!
4 - Andy Marsh
I need a closer look....maybe a taste....
5 - Eric Olsen
they aren't uninteresting: shape and perkiness are factors commensurate to size, I always say
6 - Joe
My gf is hotter and has big boobs than that, lol
7 - Eric Olsen
yes, but would a mag pay $5 mill for them?
8 - Shawn
Cameron Diaz is unbelievable. I'd love to get a closer look at those pictures.
9 - Eric Olsen
you can find many of them pretty easily by doing an image search on Google or wherever, but you didn't hear it here