**The US photographer Annie Leibovitz could lose the rights to her iconic images if she does not pay back a $24m (£14.5m) loan by a Tuesday deadline.**Ms Leibovitz, 59, has made millions from her images of celebrities and world leaders.
But she has several large mortgages and has recently faced a big lawsuit.
In 2008 she consolidated her debts with Art Capital Group using her work and properties as collateral. If she files for bankruptcy, she could lose both.
Annie Leibovitz’s most famous images include a photograph of John Lennon taken hours before he was assassinated, and a nude portrait of the pregnant actress Demi Moore for the cover of Vanity Fair magazine.
But the millions she has made from her work have been accompanied by a history of unpaid bills and taxes.
She has multimillion-dollar mortgages on properties she owns in New York, and her plans to renovate three town houses in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village landed her with a $15m (£9m) lawsuit from a neighbour.
New York-based Art Capital Group, which wants the loan repaid, issues short term loans against collateral of fine art and property.