An agreement has been reached in a legal battle over seven nude and seminude photos taken during Marilyn Monroe's "Last Sitting."The pictures were from about 2,500 shots taken by fashion and celebrity photographer Bert Stern, 78, at the Bel Air Hotel in Los Angeles for Vogue magazine in 1962, just before Monroe's drug overdose, the Associated Press reports.
The photos -- showing the iconic Hollywood starlet in various erotic poses behind a piece of transparent, white gauzy fabric -- were recreated by Stern last year with actress Lindsay Lohan.
Stern sued three individuals for $1.7 million last year after they told him they had found seven film transparencies of the shoot. On Monday, lawyers for Stern and photographers Donald Penny and Michael Weiss announced a settlement between the parties was reached "amicably."
Penny and Weiss have said that a colleague turned the transparencies over after finding them in garbage in Manhattan in the 1970s. They approached Stern last year to strike a deal over returning them, but he refused because he believed the originals in question had been stolen. In addition to their settlement, both sides revealed they will jointly produce and sell nine sets of photos from the transparencies.
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