Sunny Leone accused of plagiarism by a French artist; the actress issues clarification

Sultry actress Sunny Leone was recently called out for copying a famous French artists’ painting and auctioning it off for charity. The ‘Ragini MMS 2’ actress immediately issued a clarification stating she never claimed any credit for the image which she painted.

An account on Instagram that goes by the name Diet Sabya called out the similarity between Sunny’s painting and that of a French illustrator Malika Favre. Pointing out how Sunny had copied the French artist’s illustration, Diet Sabya wrote, “We are all for charity, but stealing an artists’ original work — without credit — and auctioning it off for charity (as your own) is just dirty. Left: original by @malikafavre; right: wtf by @sunnyleone”

You can check their post below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B4KxI7Ipa4H/

Now hitting back at the plagiarism accusation, Sunny replying to the above post wrote, “Hello. Just to give you the correct information, I was given a photograph of this piece of art. I then decided to paint it! At no time did I claim to come up with the idea. I simply painted a piece of art that I saw and loved. It should be taken as a compliment as it was being donated to cancer patients for charity. Nothing more and nothing less. Sorry, you don’t like the version that I choose to create while helping children in Need. The painting was not about you or I. It was about trying to help !!!! Best of luck !!!! Keep creating.”

Image Source - Instagram

Even the original artist called out the actress for violation of Intellectual property rights. Mallika replying to Sunny’s comment said, “Sunny Leone a credit would have been the minimum… Intellectual property is a thing you know? What if I didn’t want a copy of my work to be copied by you and auctioned? The cause is commendable, the attitude not so much.”

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We wonder what Sunny has to say now about Malika’s comment.

For more updates on this front, keep watching this space.

Also Read: Masaba Gupta lashes out at Diet Sabya against copying allegations with an open letter

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