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December 21, 2006

Folk legend does not want to be portrayed as a murderer.

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Legendary songwriter and musician, Bob Dylan, reportedly is trying to stop the release of Sienna Miller's latest film because he feels it inaccurately suggests that he was responsible for the suicide of Edie Sedgwick, one of Andy Warhol's muses.

News.com.au reports that Dylan's lawyers have written to the producers and scriptwriter of Factory Girl, demanding that all distribution and screenings of the film be halted until they have seen it. One lawyer wrote that the film's original screenplay portrays an alleged relationship between Edie Sedgwick and the singer, using his name, and implies that his dumping of Sedgwick caused her "tragic decline into heroin addiction and eventual suicide." Sedgwick, who is played by Sienna Miller, 24, was Warhol's protege who died of an overdose of barbiturates in 1971.

Also in Factory Girl is a character named Billy Quinn, played by Hayden Christensen that has been described as a composite of Dylan, The Doors' Jim Morrison and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones. However, lawyer Orin Snyder maintains that critics who have seen screenings say it is blatently just Dylan. He requests that no action is taken toward the film's distribution until a legal team has decided if they think Dylan has been defamed by it.

Snyder wrote in a statement, "You appear to be labouring under the misunderstanding that merely changing the name of a character or making him a purported fictional composite will immunise you from suit. That is not so. Even though Mr Dylan's name is not used, the portrayal remains both defamatory and a violation of Mr Dylan's right of publicity." The Weinstein Company, which is planning to release the movie on December 29 2006, did not comment on the situation, but verified that Dylan's letter existed.

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