The "all persons fictitious" disclaimer came as a result of litigation against the 1932 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) film 'Rasputin and the Empress', which insinuated that the character Princess Natasha had been raped by Rasputin. The character of Natasha was supposedly intended to represent Princess Irina Alexandrovna of Russia, who sued MGM for libel. After seeing the film twice, the jury agreed that the princess had been defamed. Irina and her husband Felix Yusupov were reportedly awarded $127,373 (equivalent to $2,580,000 in 2021) in damages by the English Court of Appeal in 1934, and $1,000,000 (equivalent to $20,000,000 in 2021) in an out-of-court settlement with MGM.