The rich get poorer?
This news was a surprise to me …
An article from Feb 25th 2009:
Famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz is broke. The woman who shot John Lennon on the same day that Mark David Chapman did, the one who has done portraits of everyone from Queen Elizabeth to a pregnant Demi Moore, has had to sign away the copyrights, negatives, and contracts for all her work to a high-class pawn shop. That includes everything she’s going to shoot in the future. In return, she gets $15.5 million to pay her debts, given at an interest rate of between 6-to 16%.
Many press reports are tracing the photog’s money woes to 2004, when her partner Susan Sontag died and left her more properties and debt than she could handle. Certainly, the added financial pressure put her over the edge, and you have to wonder how things might have been different had Sontag and Leibovitz been granted the property rights and benefits that heterosexual couples get. …
Photographer Annie Leibovitz, overexposed, is forced to sell her life’s work
We were watching The Doors, a 1991 biopic by Oliver Stone.
Leibovitz was already a celebrity photographer when she shot Jim Morrison way back then. She’s possibly the top portrait photographer of all time.
Rick McCharles 
If that is in fact the case regarding had she been afforded the same rights as heterosexual couples, this is a travesty. America once again should hang it’s dreary head in shame. The unfairness of the laws against same sex marriage and the maternity leave nightmare are just the tip of the iceberg. Shame Shame Shame.