Alan Dershowitz Sues Netflix for $80 Million Over ‘Deliberately One-Sided’ Jeffrey Epstein Documentary Series – By Colin Kalmbacher (Law & Crime) / May 26 2021
Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz filed a libel lawsuit against Netflix on Wednesday over the way he was presented in a documentary series about dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Filthy Rich, which began streaming late last May, features a series of interviews with Dershowitz. In one interview, the famed celebrity defense attorney defends the government’s 2008 secret sweetheart plea deal in which Epstein avoided federal sex trafficking charges and unnamed co-conspirators were able to obtain immunity.
The lawsuit, however, doesn’t focus on the plea deal–but does reference the deal as relevant background information explaining Dershowitz’s decision to participate in the series.
“Professor Dershowitz helped negotiate a plea bargain in which Epstein agreed to plead guilty to a charge of soliciting prostitution under Florida state law,” the filing notes at one point. “Epstein was sentenced to eighteen months in prison, and upon release, had to register as a sex offender. Epstein also agreed to settle all future civil lawsuits filed against him by alleged victims.”
