LOS ANGELES (AP):
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, Bruce Willis and Denzel Washington are suing Fry's Electronics for allegedly using their images in newspaper advertisements without permission.
Each actor seeks US$10 million in damages. The lawsuit says the advertisements could diminish their 'hard-earned and well-deserved reputations as major motion picture stars and risks the potential for overexposure'.
The lawsuit, filed on Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims the photos ran in the Los Angeles Times and other major newspapers.
Representatives of Fry's, which has its headquarters in San Jose, California, and stores in Texas, Arizona and Oregon, did not immediately return calls for comment.
Similar lawsuits involving unauthorised uses of celebrities in advertising were filed recently against cosmetics chain Sephora USA by couple Matthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker and the divorced actors Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise.
