Recently Annie Leibovitz had to sell all of her past, present, and future copyrights to all of her photographs. What happened, in a nutshell, is with the death of her long-time companion, Susan Sontag she inherited a large amount of debt. When this story broke people said things like, "she should have managed her money better,", things of that nature. There was very little pity.
She couldn't afford all of the houses Sontag had left her. Or so we thought. The truth is so much uglier and shows just what American Conservatism can do.
The truth of the matter is her financial woes stemmed from her inheritance of her long time partner, Susan Sontag ’s, estate... Same-sex couples do not have the same privileges as straight married couples when it comes to inheritance. If your partner passes away and leaves her estate to you, you have to pay up to 50 percent of the value of your inheritance in taxes. However, if you and your partner were recognized as a married couple, you wouldn’t have to pay a dime. And it is precisely this unjust double standard that got Annie Leibovitz into financial trouble.
Dumb-ass freeps, this woman is suffering and had to sell her life's work to pay for your stupidity!
http://www.afterellen.com/blog/juliamiranda/annie-leibovitz-is-in-a-jam
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