PRINCESS’S CLAIM.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 54, Issue 16, 30 October 1933, Page 5

PRINCESS’S CLAIM.

INJURED BY A PICTURE. SUIT AGAINST THE PRODUCER, ,'u (United Press Association—Copyright). NEW YORK, October 27. Princess Irian, wife of Prince Felix Youssopoff, who in legal papers is said to be a cousin of King George V., the ex-Kaiser and the late Czar, has filed a libel suit claiming -2,000,000 dollars against the Metro-Goldwvn-Mayer Film Corporation, producer of the* film “Rasputin and the Empress,” alleging that the character in the motiohpicture of Princess Natasha, who in the film introduces the nionk mto the Czar’s household and then becomes his mistress, is so thinly-veiled that people throughout the world have recognised the character as herself. She further charges that the foreword to the’film declares: “A few characters are still alive, the rest met their death by violence,” and that she and her husband are the only ones involved in the action now living.

The Princess is the daughter of the Grand Duke Alexander Micliailoviteh and married Prince Youssopoff in 1914. According to the Prince’s own story the monk Rasputin Avas lured to the Prince’s palace Avhere he Avas shot, after an attempt at poisoning had failed. The Prince and Princess are uoav running a fashionable millinery business Avith branches in Paris, London and Berlin.