Previous Trump law firm Alan Dershowitz sues

Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday submitted a multimillion-greenback lawsuit in opposition to Netflix and the producers of “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Wealthy” above his portrayal in the docuseries about the deceased multimillionaire and accused youngster sex trafficker.

Legal professionals for Dershowitz, who was interviewed for the 2020 sequence, allege he was misled “knowingly and intentionally” by the producers, who “maliciously and deliberately” portrayed him in “a defamatory manner.”

They did that by “advertising and bolstering untrue allegations of sexual misconduct in opposition to Professor Dershowitz,” says the lawsuit, which was submitted in southern Florida federal courtroom.

A Netflix spokesperson informed CNBC in a assertion that Dershowitz’s lawsuit “is with no advantage, and we will vigorously protect our partners and the sequence.”  

Dershowitz is also suing Radical Media LLC and Leroy & Morton Productions LLC, as perfectly as the show’s director, Lisa Bryant, and producer Joseph Berlinger.

Epstein sufferer Virginia Giuffre alleges she experienced been recruited as aspect of the dead income manager’s intercourse trafficking procedure and had been directed to have intercourse with Dershowitz and others.

Dershowitz, who is even now preventing Giuffre in courtroom, denies he had intercourse with her and claims he never ever met her. His defamation fit accuses the defendants of “not presenting proof in the Netflix Epstein series that they gained and agreed to present,” which he suggests exonerates him.

Dershowitz’s denial and Giuffre’s accusation “arrive off as a ‘he claimed/she said’ conflict,” the lawsuit states. But “it wasn’t a ‘he explained/she said’ scenario, having said that, provided Professor Dershowitz’s totality of the proof setting up he in no way experienced sex with Giuffre,” the lawyers argue.

Bryant “deliberately broke” her recurring guarantee to involve in the Netflix sequence “all the evidence that Professor Dershowitz introduced to her disproving Giuffre’s allegations against Professor Dershowitz,” the lawsuit alleges.

A law firm for Giuffre did not quickly reply to a ask for for remark.

Dershowitz is demanding at least $20 million every single in damages for four individual brings about of motion, which includes defamation and breach of deal, in accordance to the lawsuit.

Philip Byler, an attorney for Dershowitz, told CNBC in an email that “the damages determine demonstrates that Professor Dershowitz’s standing has been seriously weakened.” He noted that compensatory statements normally get refined all through the training course of litigation.

“I am positive you would not want to be taunted about liking sex with underage ladies,” Byler additional.

Dershowitz extra than a 10 years previously experienced helped negotiate a plea cut price for Epstein that necessary the financier to register as a intercourse offender. Epstein was arrested on sexual intercourse trafficking costs in July 2019. He hanged himself in his jail mobile in Manhattan federal lockup about a month afterwards.

A Harvard Legislation professor, Dershowitz experienced also joined former President Donald Trump’s lawful crew in the course of his to start with impeachment combat.

A lot more lately, he explained to CNBC he was advising legal professionals for MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell in a defamation accommodate.

Byler in a statement reported Netflix and the Epstein show’s producers applied the professor’s name “to generate sights of their miniseries and then proceeded to defame him with intelligent manipulation of information.”

“This can make a mockery of our First Modification, victims’ legal rights, and the reality by itself,” Byler claimed.