Whereas Leonardo DiCaprio was already an Oscar nominee, he turned a worldwide celebrity after the success of director James Cameron’s epic catastrophe romance movie Titanic. However engaged on the film additionally introduced its share of bother in DiCaprio’s life.
He was photographed in a compromised place whereas engaged on the movie, and caught wind that the photographs could be printed by Playgirl journal. This was within the late 90s, and the journal was trying to make a grand splash on the web. In fact, the grownup leisure trade could be value billions of {dollars} within the years to return.
DiCaprio sued Playgirl, and demanded that the images not be printed as deliberate within the journal’s July 1998 subject. Based on the Related Press, the swimsuit claimed that the photographs have been ‘offensive and objectionable’, and that ‘an affordable individual of unusual sensibilities (would) not need to disclose in a nationally printed journal… his fully bare physique, together with full frontal nudity’.
The lawsuit, in line with a 1998 AP report, sought unspecified damages for invasion of privateness and emotional misery. DiCaprio adopted within the footsteps of Brad Pitt, who had additionally sued Playgirl on comparable grounds.
Playgirl’s then editor-in-chief instructed the New York Publish that she had give up her job in protest, after claiming to be pressured by the journal’s homeowners to publish the photographs. “It goes in opposition to my ethics,” she mentioned. “It’s an invasion of privateness. I can’t be related to it.” The identical report, nonetheless, quoted the homeowners as saying that she was fired.
Ultimately, “each events amicably settled their variations,″ Playgirl legal professional Kent Raygor mentioned, whereas DiCaprio’s legal professional Linda Goldman, confirmed the deal however declined to offer any additional particulars.
DiCaprio’s private life has at all times been adopted carefully by the paparazzi press. His relationships typically make headlines, as does his lavish life-style. The actor works solely often nowadays. He was final seen within the satirical comedy Don’t Look Up, and can subsequent be seen within the Western drama Killers of the Flower Moon.