American Apparel settles Woody Allen suit -laywers

Published: 18 May 2009 17:14:25 PST

NEW YORK , May 18 - American Apparel Incsettled film director Woody Allen's lawsuit over the company's use of his image in advertising for $5 million, lawyers said on Monday as the case was about to come to trial.

"I am told the settlement of five million dollars I am being paid is the largest reported amount ever paid under the New York right to privacy law," Allen, standing with the lawyers, told reporters outside Manhattan federal court.