Audrey Hepburn's two sons ended up on opposite sides of a lawsuit over who controls her image

After Audrey Hepburn died of abdominal cancer in January 1993, aged 63, her sons Sean Hepburn Ferrer and Luca Dotti and her partner Robert Wolders created a charity, Hollywood for Children, later called the Audrey Hepburn Children's Fund. In 2013 the sons licensed a digitally recreated young Hepburn for a Galaxy chocolate advertisement. In February 2017 the fund sued Ferrer. It alleged that from April 2013 he interfered with its work, took control of its web domains and email, and in January 2015 asked Hubert de Givenchy to back-date a letter saying gowns given to the fund had been given to the sons; Givenchy refused. It also alleged that Ferrer would let the fund use her image only if a large share of the money went to a charity of his choice. Ferrer and Dotti were on opposite sides. After a non-jury trial, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David Sotelo issued a proposed decision in October 2019. He found that Ferrer and Dotti co-own Hepburn's right of publicity, that any license after March 2013 needs both of them, and that either one can end a license. If finalized, the decision would stop the fund's damages claims. The fund's lawyer said an appeal would follow. The judge said he hoped the brothers could become close again. The result of any appeal is not confirmed^†.