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Daughter gets payout over 70s nude 'art' pics

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Daughter gets payout over 70s nude 'art' pics
Irina Ionesco, photographed in 2010. Photo: François Guillot.

A Paris court Monday ordered French-Romanian photographer Irina Ionesco to pay €10,000 in damages to her daughter for taking explicit pictures of her in the 1970s, when she was between four and 12.

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The court also ordered Ionesco to hand over negatives of the pictures to her daughter Eva, a French actress who said she had suffered a "stolen childhood" because of the photographs.

But it rejected her demand for €200,00 ($263,000) in damages and for her mother to be barred from profiting from the photographs.

Ionesco was well-known in the 1970s for her erotic photographs, especially the controversial ones of her daughter, which appeared in a number of publications including European editions of magazines Playboy and Penthouse.

During the trial her lawyer argued the 1970s were a "more liberal and permissive" time and said Eva was pursuing a personal vendetta against her mother.

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