![]() ![]() The children she once cared for saved her from homelessness by paying for her lodging and looked after her as she aged. Maier, a self-taught photographer, was a recluse remembered by only a few friends and the families for whom she had long worked as a nanny. Griffith, with the Chicago law firm of Marshall, Gerstein & Borun, said in an e-mail Tuesday at that the estate is pleased to have reached a settlement with the Mpls Photo Center, "but has no further comment on the matter or its resolution." The estate filed lawsuits in at least seven federal jurisdictions in five states. "I never dreamt that it could impact me, personally," Harrington said. ![]() ![]() He believes the Rutchicks had "indemnified" him against any lawsuits when they sold him the business. ![]() Jeffrey Harrington, who the bought the Mpls Photo Center from Orin and Abby Rutchick in November 2015, said the lawsuit was unfair. Lawyers for the city sued the Mpls Photo Center in 2017, alleging that it had conducted unauthorized exhibitions and sales of Maier's works several years earlier. Maier died in 2009 at age 83 without leaving a will or any known heirs, so the city of Chicago was left to sort out her estate. The owner of the Mpls Photo Center is licking his wounds and trying to move forward after settling a federal lawsuit Tuesday for copyright infringement involving the work of Vivian Maier, a Chicago nanny whose street photography was discovered posthumously and led to worldwide exhibitions and a documentary film. ![]()
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