Irina Krupnik, The Manhattan bikini model and make up artist is furious a character in the hit comedy, played by Jon Favreau, used her image in a risque scene that shows her on the cover of a brochure at the fictional resort island for couples, on the island Bora Bora.
In the claim, Irina Krupnik had no idea a photo shoot done ten years ago would see her appear in the Hollywood romance flick: “That photo was taken nearly 10 years ago for a modeling job when Ms. Krupnik, a native of the former Soviet Union, was just 21 years old.”
The $10 million legal claim states that Irina Krupnik was unaware the photo of her in a bikini in a beach would ever be used in such a “degrading context”
The claim also says the makers of Couples Retread, NBC Universal, should have used a photo by a model that was aware her image would be used in the adults only scene for the romantic comedy hit.
Now Irina Krupnik wants $10 million from NBC Universal for invading her privacy. Irina Krupnik Krupnik said the scene has cause her “great humiliation, embarrassment, emotional distress, shame, mortification and injury to her reputation and career.”
