Saturday, November 29, 2025

Warner Bros ordered to pay damages for using businessman’s photo in Ben Affleck thriller

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Claimant argued his reputation suffered as result of being associated with mafia in 2016 film

A judge in Spain has ordered Warner Bros to pay €25,000 in damages to a Moroccan businessman after his photograph appeared alongside images of the Gambino crime family in a 2016 thriller that starred Ben Affleck as a forensic accountant with a prodigious gift for maths.

The claimant, who had originally sought €250,000 from the studio, argued that his moral standing and business had suffered as a result of being associated with the mafia in the film The Accountant.

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