Former Trump attorney Alan Dershowitz takes legal action against

Famed lawyer Alan Dershowitz on Wednesday submitted a multimillion-dollar suit versus Netflix and the manufacturers of “Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich” over his representation in the docuseries about the departed multimillionaire and implicated kid sex trafficker.

Lawyers for Dershowitz, who was spoken with for the 2020 series, declare he was deceived “knowingly and deliberately” by the manufacturers, who “maliciously and intentionally” represented him in “a defamatory manner.”

They did that by “promoting and bolstering false allegations of sexual misconduct against Professor Dershowitz,” states the suit, which was submitted in southern Florida federal court.

A Netflix representative informed CNBC in a declaration that Dershowitz’s suit “is without merit, and we will vigorously defend our partners and the series.”  

Dershowitz is likewise taking legal action against Radical Media LLC and Leroy & Morton Productions LLC, along with the program’s director, Lisa Bryant, and manufacturer Joseph Berlinger.

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre declares she had actually been hired as part of the dead cash supervisor’s sex trafficking operation and had actually been directed to make love with Dershowitz and others.

Dershowitz, who is still battling Giuffre in court, rejects he made love with her and states he never ever fulfilled her. His character assassination match implicates the accuseds of “not presenting evidence in the Netflix Epstein series that they received and agreed to present,” which he states exonerates him.

Dershowitz’s rejection and Giuffre’s allegation “come off as a ‘he said/she said’ conflict,” the suit states. But “it wasn’t a ‘he said/she said’ situation, however, given Professor Dershowitz’s totality of the evidence establishing he never had sex with Giuffre,” the legal representatives argue.

Bryant “deliberately broke” her duplicated guarantee to consist of in the Netflix series “all the evidence that Professor Dershowitz presented to her disproving Giuffre’s allegations against Professor Dershowitz,” the suit declares.

A legal representative for Giuffre did not instantly react to an ask for remark.

Dershowitz is requiring a minimum of $20 million each in damages for 4 different reasons for action, consisting of character assassination and breach of agreement, according to the suit.

Philip Byler, a lawyer for Dershowitz, informed CNBC in an e-mail that “the damages figure reflects that Professor Dershowitz’s reputation has been severely damaged.” He kept in mind that countervailing claims typically get fine-tuned throughout the course of lawsuits.

“I am sure you would not want to be taunted about liking sex with underage girls,” Byler included.

Dershowitz more than a years previously had actually assisted work out a plea plan on Epstein that needed the investor to sign up as a sex transgressor. Epstein was jailed on sex trafficking charges in July 2019. He hanged himself in his prison cell in Manhattan federal lockup about a month later on.

A Harvard Law teacher, Dershowitz had actually likewise signed up with previous President Donald Trump’s legal group throughout his very first impeachment battle.

More just recently, he informed CNBC he was recommending legal representatives for MyPillow CEO and election conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell in a disparagement match.

Byler in a declaration stated Netflix and the Epstein program’s manufacturers utilized the teacher’s name “to drive views of their miniseries and then proceeded to defame him with clever manipulation of facts.”

“This makes a mockery of our First Amendment, victims’ rights, and the truth itself,” Byler stated.