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Christopher Lee loses royalties dispute


24 March 2010

Sir Christopher Lee has been ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of pounds following a royalties dispute.

The Lord of the Rings star, 87, and his associates must pay £640,000 to artist Gerardo Moreno for work he did on a DVD cover, a Spanish court ruled.

Mr Moreno claims he was not properly paid for the art work on the DVD of Jinnah, a 1998 movie staring Lee about the life of the founding father of Pakistan, Muhammed Ali Jinnah.

Mr Moreno sued Lee, the actor's official website run by agent and son-in-law Juan Aneiros, and company The Quaid Project Limited at a civil court in Burgos in northern Spain.

The illustrator claims he wasn’t properly paid for the work he did for the DVD cover of 1998 movie Jinnah, which starred Lee as Pakistan founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Lee, who has appeared in over 200 films, claimed that it was the most important film he has ever done.

Moreno claimed he was hired by Aneiros, with the consent of the film's bosses and Lee to design the cover for the movie.

The British actor has appeared in more than 220 films and made his name as Count Dracula in the Hammer horror films of the 1950s and 60s.

In 2002 he said Jinnah was his most important film role.

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