{"id":102790,"date":"2024-06-07T00:01:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T00:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/baby-reindeers-real-life-martha-sues-netflix-demanding-170m-for-defamation-and-negligence-and-more-news\/"},"modified":"2024-06-07T00:01:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-07T00:01:22","slug":"baby-reindeers-real-life-martha-sues-netflix-demanding-170m-for-defamation-and-negligence-and-more-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/07\/baby-reindeers-real-life-martha-sues-netflix-demanding-170m-for-defamation-and-negligence-and-more-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby Reindeer\u2019s real-life Martha sues Netflix demanding $170M for defamation and negligence, and more news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Netflix was sued for $170 million in defamation and negligence over the widely watched black comedy <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/baby-reindeer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Baby Reindeer<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an action by Plaintiff <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/fiona-harvey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fiona Harvey<\/a><\/strong> (\u201cHarvey\u201d) against Defendants Netflix, Inc. and Netflix Worldwide Entertainment (collectively \u201cNetflix\u201d) for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence, and violations of Harvey\u2019s right of publicity, arising out of the brutal lies Defendants told about her in the television series, Baby Reindeer,\u201d reads the long-promised suit filed today in federal court in Los Angeles. For some reason, <a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/tag\/richard-gadd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Richard Gadd<\/a>, the creator and star of <em>Baby Reindeer<\/em>, is not a defendant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe lies that Defendants told about Harvey to over 50 million people worldwide include that Harvey is a twice convicted stalker who was sentenced to five years in prison, and that Harvey sexually assaulted Gadd. Defendants told these lies, and never stopped, because it was a better story than the truth, and better stories made money,\u201d the heavily illustrated 34-page complaint adds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a result of Defendants\u2019 lies, malfeasance and utterly reckless misconduct, Harvey\u2019s life had been ruined. Simply, Netflix and Gadd destroyed her reputation, her character and her life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read it at <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/global\/baby-reindeer-real-martha-fiona-harvey-sues-netflix-1236019699\/?utm_campaign=links&amp;utm_medium=quickies&amp;utm_source=socialitelife\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2024\/tv\/global\/baby-reindeer-real-martha-fiona-harvey-sues-netflix-1236019699\/?utm_campaign=links&amp;utm_medium=quickies&amp;utm_source=socialitelife\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Variety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Plus, <strong>Jacob Elordi<\/strong>, <strong>Jake Gyllenhaal<\/strong>, <strong>Zachary Levi<\/strong>, <strong>Robert Kennedy Jr.<\/strong> news, and more! Keep scrolling to check out today&#8217;s entertainment and pop culture news.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">QUICKIES<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>How did I not know that <strong>Jake Gyllenhaal<\/strong> was legally blind? 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Also, as Amazon Influencers, we earn from qualifying purchases.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"aawp-disclaimer\">Last update on 2024-06-06 \/ Affiliate links \/ Images from Amazon Product Advertising API<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/socialitelife.com\/baby-reindeers-real-life-martha-sues-netflix-demanding-170m-for-defamation-and-negligence-and-more-news\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=baby-reindeers-real-life-martha-sues-netflix-demanding-170m-for-defamation-and-negligence-and-more-news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Netflix was sued for $170 million in defamation and negligence over the widely watched black comedy Baby Reindeer. \u201cThis is an action by Plaintiff Fiona Harvey (\u201cHarvey\u201d) against Defendants Netflix, Inc. and Netflix Worldwide Entertainment (collectively \u201cNetflix\u201d) for defamation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, gross negligence, and violations of Harvey\u2019s right of publicity, arising [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":102791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102790","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}