RUDOLF NUREYEV DANCE FOUND. v. NOUREEVA-FRANCOIS

No. 94 CIV. 7701 DC.

7 F.Supp.2d 402 (1998)

RUDOLF NUREYEV DANCE FOUNDATION, an Illinois not-for-profit corporation, Plaintiff, v. Roza NOUREEVA-FRANCOIS, Razida Evgrafova, Gouzel Noureeva, Alfia Rafikova-Yagudina, Victor Evgrafov, and Yuri Evgrafov, Defendants.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

June 26, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nisen & Elliot by Michael H. Moirano, Robert B. Christie, Chicago, IL, Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP by F. Peter Phillips, Robert M. Abrahams, New York, NY, for Plaintiff.

Rosenman & Colin by Gerald A. Rosenberg, Stacey B. Creem, New York, NY, for Defendants Roza Noureeva-Francois and Gouzel Noureeva.


AMENDED OPINION

CHIN, District Judge.

Rudolf Nureyev was perhaps the greatest dancer of his time. He will be remembered not only for his brilliance on the stage, but for his daring flight to freedom in 1961, when he became the first of the great Russian dancers to defect to the West. He continued to dance, as a free man, for three decades.

Nureyev died of AIDS-related illnesses in Paris on January 6, 1993. Although he was penniless when he...

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