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By July 2017, Slater was reported to be having financial problems and was unable to pay his attorney.<ref name=Guardian2017-07-12>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/monkey-selfie-macaque-copyright-court-david-slater|title=Monkey selfie photographer says he's broke: 'I'm thinking of dog walking'|author=Julia Carrie Wong|author-link=Julia Carrie Wong |work=The Guardian|date=13 July 2017|access-date=16 July 2017}}</ref><ref name=Telegraph2017-07-13 /><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographer-being-sued-by-a-monkey-over-its-selfie-is-now-broke/|title=Photographer Being Sued By A Monkey Over Its "Selfie" Is Now Broke|work=IFLScience|date=13 July 2017|access-date=16 July 2017}}</ref> While he had originally made a few thousand pounds from the images, enough to recoup his travel costs to Indonesia, this income reduced to about "£100 every few months" when the Wikimedia Foundation refused to stop making the images available without his permission.<ref name="BBC_7_Aug_2014" /><ref name=Telegraph2017-07-13 />
Slater was unable to travel to the July 2017 court hearing in the United States for lack of funds and said he was considering alternative careers as a dog walker or tennis coach.<ref name=Telegraph2017-07-13>{{cite news|first= Camilla |last= Turner |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/13/photographer-centre-bizarre-court-battle-reveals-sued-monkey/|title=Photographer in bizarre selfie court battle reveals that being sued by a monkey has left him broke|work=The Telegraph|date=13 July 2017|access-date=16 July 2017}}</ref> He said he was no longer motivated to take photographs, that he had become depressed,<ref name=Telegraph2017-07-13 /> and that his efforts to "highlight the plight of the monkeys" had "backfired on my private life" and ruined his life.<ref name=Telegraph2017-07-13 /> However, Slater said he was delighted by the impact of the photoshoot itself: "It has taken six years for my original intention to come true which was to highlight the plight of the monkeys and bring it to the world. No one had heard of these monkeys six years ago, they were down to the last thousands. ... The locals used to roast them, but now they love them, they call it the 'selfie
In May 2018, [[Condé Nast Entertainment]] acquired the rights from Slater to make a documentary film related to the
==See also==
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[[Category:Individual monkeys]]
[[Category:Monkeys in popular culture]]
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