As an adult, Eva Ionesco turned her trauma into a powerful act of reclamation, both in the courtroom and behind the camera. In 2012, she sued her mother for 200,000 euros in damages, demanding that all nude photos taken of her between the ages of four and twelve be returned and that their further exploitation be prohibited. Her lawyer argued she was “deprived of her childhood” and portrayed as a “disguised prostitute” in her mother’s images.
: Similar explicit photographs of Eva, mostly taken by her mother, appeared in the Spanish edition of Penthouse (1978) and on the cover of Der Spiegel .
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