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NEW YORK Annie Leibovitz cannot catch a break. With attention focused on her $24 million loan that’s due Tuesday, Leibovitz was sued Friday over something unrelated: the Lavazza coffee ad campaign that debuted last year.
Bloomberg news reports that Italian photographer Paolo Pizzetti is suing Leibovitz in a federal court in New York, claiming she used his pictures without his permission as backgrounds in the ad campaign:
“Pizzetti says Leibovitz hired him to shoot photographs of scouting locations for an ad campaign for Lavazza, the Italian coffee company, in April 2008.
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