Franco Zeffirelli was a well-respected Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer, and politician. So when Zeffirelli, in his role as the director of the 1968 film “Romeo and Juliet,” allegedly told teenage actors Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting there would be no nudity shown, they said they believed him.
It turned out not to be true. Hussey’s bare breasts and Whiting’s buttocks were shown in the film, and now, 55 years later, the pair has filed a lawsuit against the film’s production company Paramount Pictures for sexual exploitation and distribution of nude images of minors.
California law temporarily suspended the statute of limitations for older claims of child sexual abuse until the deadline of Dec. 31, 2022, and the lawsuit was filed last Dec. 30 in Santa Monica, seeking damages in excess of $100 million….