SHIELDS v. GROSS


58 N.Y.2d 338 (1983)

Brooke Shields, Respondent-Appellant, v. Garry Gross, Appellant-Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided March 29, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

A. Richard Golub and Gary S. Graifman for respondent-appellant.

Sandor Frankel and Peter M. Thall for respondent-appellant.

Chief Judge COOKE and Judges JONES and WACHTLER concur with Judge SIMONS; Judge JASEN dissents in part and votes to affirm in a separate opinion in which Judges FUCHSBERG and MEYER concur.


SIMONS, J.

The issue on this appeal is whether an infant model may disaffirm a prior unrestricted consent executed on her behalf by her parent and maintain an action pursuant to section 51 of the Civil Rights Law against her photographer for republication of photographs of her. We hold that she may not.

Plaintiff is now a well-known actress. For many years prior to these events she had been a child model...

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