Saturday, June 4, 2011

Marilyn Monroe

New suit filed over Monroe rights

Nearly five decades after actress Marilyn Monroe died, the Hollywood blond bombshell still lives, at least in courtrooms in Indianapolis and across the country.

Legal battles over the rights to profit from her image and celebrity, worth millions of dollars a year, have continued from New York to California since her death in 1962.

Fishers-based celebrity licensing agency CMG Worldwide has stayed near the center of the legal action for 20 years, representing some of the primary heirs of Monroe's last will.

However, a New York court decision in 2008 began to loosen their lock on the dead celebrity's "post mortem right of publicity," opening a door for Monroe's most intimate writings and other personal effects to be sold.


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