Charlize Theron Being Sued For $20 Million

 

Charlize Theron is being sued for $20 million for breach-of-contract.

Oscar winner Charlize Theron, 33, is heading to Federal Court for the Southern District of New York later this month, dispite her legal temans efforts to have the case dismissed, for a breach-of-contract lawsuit against her by Swiss watchmaker Raymond Weil.

According to the original court papers, Theron was paid “substantial funds” said to be $20 million, to star as the “new face” of Weil in the company’s ad campaign, and she was to wear its timepieces exclusively from October 2005 to December 2006.

Weil’s suit against its former brand ambassador, however, claims that simultaneously to her contract with them, Theron was also the face of a Dior perfume, and “was actually photographed wearing a watch from the Christian Dior line” at a press event in Austin, Texas, on March 14, 2006.”

A photo of Theron wearing the offending watch was included as an exhibit in Weil’s filing.

The New York’s Daily News is reporting Weil is seeking the return of those “substantial funds,” reports New York’s Daily News.