Editing Felix Yusupov (section)

==Lawsuits==
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In 1932, he and his wife successfully sued American film company [[MGM]], in the [[English courts]], for [[libel]] and [[invasion of privacy]] in connection with the film ''[[Rasputin and the Empress]]''. The alleged libel was not that the character based on Felix had committed murder but that the character based on Irina, called "Princess Natasha" in the film, was portrayed as having been seduced by the lecherous Rasputin.<ref>King, pp. 240–241</ref> In 1934, the Yusupovs were awarded £25,000 damages, an enormous sum at the time, which was attributed to the successful arguments of their barrister, [[Patrick Hastings]]. The [[All persons fictitious disclaimer|disclaimer]] that now appears at the end of many American films, "The preceding was a work of fiction, any similarity to a living person&nbsp;...", first appeared as a result of the [[legal precedent]] set by the Yusupov case.<ref>N. Z. Davis "'Any Resemblance to Persons Living or Dead': Film and the Challenge of Authenticity", ''The Yale Review'', 86 (1986–87): 457–482.</ref>

[[Image:Château de Kériolet.JPG|thumb|left|[[Château de Keriolet]] belonged to the Yusupov family]]

In 1965, Felix Yusupov also sued [[CBS]] in a New York court for televising a play based upon the Rasputin assassination. The claim was that some events were fictionalized, and under a New York state statute,<ref>New York Civil Rights Act, arts. 50–51</ref> his commercial rights in his story had been misappropriated. The last reported judicial opinion in the case was a ruling by New York's second-highest court that the case could not be resolved upon briefs and [[affidavit]]s but must go to trial.<ref>''Youssoupoff v. Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.'', 19 A.D.2d 865 (1963)</ref> According to an obituary of CBS's lawyer, Carleton G. Eldridge Jr., CBS eventually won the case.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/1983/09/06/obituaries/carleton-eldridge-jr-lawyer.html |title=Carleton Eldridge Jr., Lawyer |first=Thomas W. |last=Ennis |date=6 September 1983 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=15 September 2017}}</ref>

In 1928, after Yusupov published his memoir detailing the killing of Rasputin, Rasputin's daughter, [[Maria Rasputin|Maria]], sued Yusupov and Dmitri in a Paris court for damages of $800,000. She condemned both men as murderers and said any decent person would be disgusted by the ferocity of Rasputin's killing.<ref>King, Greg, ''The Man Who Killed Rasputin,'' Carol Publishing Group, 1995, {{ISBN|0-8065-1971-1}}, p. 232</ref> Maria's claim was dismissed. The [[French court]] ruled that it had no jurisdiction over a political killing that had occurred in Russia.<ref>King, p. 233</ref>