Netflix sued by real-life subject of legal drama ‘When They See Us’
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nme.comNetflix have called Linda Farstein's claims "frivolous" and "without merit" in a statement Netflix is being sued by one of the real-life subjects of their legal drama mini-series When They See Us.
The four-part drama released last year is based on the real-life story of five African American teenagers who were falsely convicted in 1990 of raping a woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989.
Now, as reported by Variety, Linda Farstein has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix and the show’s producer Ava Duvernay over the show’s depiction of her. “Throughout the film series, Ms Fairstein is portrayed as making statements that she never said, taking actions that she did not take — many of them racist and unethical, if not unlawful — in
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