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It was in the midst of this legal chaos, in 1976, that an 11-year-old Eva Ionesco appeared in the pages of Playboy Magazine .
, Ionesco successfully sued her mother, Irina Ionesco, for emotional distress and copyright infringement related to the erotic photos taken during her childhood. A Paris court ordered the mother to pay damages and hand over the negatives of the photos. Artistic Reclaiming : Ionesco directed the 2011 film My Little Princess
Eva now lectures at film schools about the ethics of photographing children. She has explicitly asked her fans and critics not to share the Playboy images, calling them "evidence of a crime, not artifacts of art."
