Dakota Fanning: Big Apple Bound

Dakota Fanning goes for comfort in her leather jacket as she arrives at LAX Airport in Los Angeles on Thursday afternoon (December 15).

The 17-year-old actress was headed back to the Big Apple for a few days.

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Dakota just returned from Venice, Italy where she was filming Effie.

She plays the title character in the flick, about Effie and her critic husband John Ruskin. Effie left John without the marriage being consummated, and after the annulment, married his protégé, John Everett Millais.