child abuse. The reported $100 million+ claim for punitive damages is made possible due to the temporary suspension of the statute-of-limitations laws in the State of California for claims of historic sexual abuse allegations. 31 December 2022 was the state's absolute filing deadline for people over 40 years of age. Paramount Pictures have reportedly earned up to $500 million from the production, and Whiting, according to business manager Tony Marinozzi, wants Paramount held accountable for the mental and emotional abuse suffered over the intervening years. The third act nude sequence, it is claimed, was "secretly filmed" in September 1967 by director Franco Zeffirelli, despite the alleged objections from the two stars, who played Romeo and Juliet in the film, released in 1968. If substantiated, this would show that Whiting was aged at least 17 years and 2 months during the controversially shot scenes, making him well below the age of legal consent of 18 (as was co-star Olivia Hussey) for filming of nude scenes. Filmography References External links 1950 births English male film actors English people of Irish descent English male stage actors Living people People from Wood Green 20th-century English male actors 21st-century English male actors New Star of the Year (Actor) Golden Globe winners