In a statement to Variety, Chapman said she “was devastated by the use of my image in place of my great friend and long-time collaborator Janet Patterson.
Janet was a great beauty and four-time Oscar nominee and it is very disappointing that the error was not picked up.
It was a solid joke at the time, but now it’s just plain eerie since… the Oscars really did include a living person in the tribute to the deceased.
I had urged her agency to check any photograph which might be used and understand that they were told that the Academy had it covered.