{"id":115158,"date":"2021-05-26T22:21:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=115158"},"modified":"2021-05-26T22:21:17","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T22:21:17","slug":"former-trump-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-sues-netflix-over-portrayal-in-jeffrey-epstein-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/former-trump-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-sues-netflix-over-portrayal-in-jeffrey-epstein-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump lawyer Alan Dershowitz sues Netflix over portrayal in Jeffrey Epstein series"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Netflix and the producers of its show &quot;Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich&quot; over his portrayal in the docuseries.<\/li>\n<li>Dershowitz is demanding at least $20 million each in damages for four separate causes of action, including defamation and breach of contract, the lawsuit in Florida federal court says.<\/li>\n<li>Dershowitz more than a decade earlier had helped negotiate a plea bargain for Epstein that required the financier to register as a sex offender.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Netflix and the producers of &quot;Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich&quot; over his portrayal in the docuseries about the deceased billionaire and accused child sex trafficker.<\/p>\n<p>Lawyers for Dershowitz, who was interviewed for the 2020 series, allege he was misled &quot;knowingly and deliberately&quot; by the producers, who &quot;maliciously and intentionally&quot; portrayed him in &quot;a defamatory manner.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>They did that by &quot;promoting and bolstering false allegations of sexual misconduct against Professor Dershowitz,&quot; says the lawsuit, which was filed in southern Florida federal court.<\/p>\n<p>A Netflix spokesperson told CNBC in a statement that Dershowitz&#x27;s lawsuit &quot;is without merit, and we will vigorously defend our partners and the series.&quot;\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz is also suing Radical Media LLC and Leroy &amp; Morton Productions LLC, as well as the show&#x27;s director, Lisa Bryant, and producer Joseph Berlinger.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre alleges she had been recruited as part of the dead money manager&#x27;s sex trafficking operation and had been directed to have sex with Dershowitz and others.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz, who is still fighting Giuffre in court, denies he had sex with her and says he never met her. His defamation suit accuses the defendants of &quot;not presenting evidence in the Netflix Epstein series that they received and agreed to present,&quot; which he says exonerates him.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz&#x27;s denial and Giuffre&#x27;s accusation &quot;come off as a &#x27;he said\/she said&#x27; conflict,&quot; the lawsuit states. But &quot;it wasn&#x27;t a &#x27;he said\/she said&#x27; situation, however, given Professor Dershowitz&#x27;s totality of the evidence establishing he never had sex with Giuffre,&quot; the lawyers argue.<\/p>\n<p>Bryant &quot;deliberately broke&quot; her repeated promise to include in the Netflix series &quot;all the evidence that Professor Dershowitz presented to her disproving Giuffre&#x27;s allegations against Professor Dershowitz,&quot; the lawsuit alleges.<\/p>\n<p>A lawyer for Giuffre did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz is demanding at least $20 million each in damages for four separate causes of action, including defamation and breach of contract, according to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Byler, an attorney for Dershowitz, told CNBC in an email that &quot;the damages figure reflects that Professor Dershowitz&#x27;s reputation has been severely damaged.&quot; He noted that compensatory claims usually get refined during the course of litigation.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I am sure you would not want to be taunted about liking sex with underage girls,&quot; Byler added.<\/p>\n<p>Dershowitz more than a decade earlier had helped negotiate a plea bargain for Epstein that required the financier to register as a sex offender. Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in July 2019. He hanged himself in his jail cell in Manhattan federal lockup about a month later.<\/p>\n<p>A Harvard Law professor, Dershowitz had also joined former President Donald Trump&#x27;s legal team during his first impeachment fight.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, he told CNBC he was advising lawyers for MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell in a defamation suit.<\/p>\n<p>Byler in a statement said Netflix and the Epstein show&#x27;s producers used the professor&#x27;s name &quot;to drive views of their miniseries and then proceeded to defame him with clever manipulation of facts.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;This makes a mockery of our First Amendment, victims&#x27; rights, and the truth itself,&quot; Byler said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/05\/26\/jeffrey-epstein-netflix-series-former-trump-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-sues.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Netflix and the producers of its show &quot;Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich&quot; 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