Trump attorney and The Hill contributor Alan Dershowitz has filed an $80 million lawsuit against Netflix in federal court in Florida for his portrayal in a 2020 documentary mini-series “Filthy Rich,” the New York Daily News reports.
The lawsuit claims the streaming network propagated “false allegations of sexual misconduct” in its original, four-part series about Jeffrey Epstein, the million child trafficker accused of pimping out young girls to rich and influential men.
Dershowitz objects to portions of the documentary about Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s sex trafficking victims who claimed Epstein “lent” her to Dershowitz for sexual acts on numerous occasions, starting when she was 16-years-old. Dershowitz denies ever having sex with any of Epstein’s victims.
“The Netflix Defendants leveraged Professor Dershowitz’s name to drive views of their mini-series 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,” his attorney Philip Byler said in a statement.
Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer when Epstein got a sweetheart deal from prosecutors for numerous acts of child sex trafficking from Florida federal prosecutors.