Jeff Koons Defeats Louis XIV Descendant in Court Battle Over Versailles Exhibit

While Jeff Koons didn’t seem to do too well in front of judges last year, losing a custody battle in the European Court of Human Rights of all places, 2009 is shaping up to be more litigiously kind to him. As we recently reported, a descendant of Louis XIV, Charles Emmanuel de Bourbon-Parme, was attempting to get Koons and his popular exhibit kicked out of Versailles, claiming that “the exhibition is a ‘profanization’ of the work of his royal forefather.”