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A Spanish court has ordered Warner Bros. to pay 25,000 euros in damages to a Moroccan businessman because his photo appeared alongside images of the Gambino crime family in The Accountant with Ben Affleck.
The plaintiff had demanded 250,000 euros from the studio, claiming that his reputation and business were damaged due to his connection to the mob in the 2016 thriller starring Affleck, who played a forensic accountant and intellect in mathematics.
The man, whose name was withheld in court, lives in Valencia, eastern Spain, and said his son had notified him of his inadvertent appearance in the film.
In its ruling, the Valencian court affirms that the plaintiff’s face is visible for just one second in a 115-minute movie. It also acknowledges that Warner Bros. claims the photo was taken from a genuine FBI arrest warrant issued for the plaintiff in connection with an alleged 2004 wire fraud.
However, the court ruled that the man’s photograph had been used in the film “without any kind of consent, either tacit or explicitAnd that it had appeared under an inscription with the indication: “suspected collaborators of the Gambino family.
The citation of the photo and the inscription, according to the court, damaged his reputation.
The judge awarded the man 25,000 euros in damages, but rejected his claim for lost profits, arguing that it had not been proven that he suffered financially as a result of the use of his image in the film.
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