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Netflix Admits ‘Baby Reindeer’s Real-Life Martha Was Not Convicted Of Stalking Richard Gadd
In an admission that could go to the heart of a 'Baby Reindeer' lawsuit, Netflix has said the show's real-life Martha was not convicted of stalking.
Deadline can reveal that Netflix has acknowledged that Martha — who was identified as Scottish lawyer Fiona Harvey soon after Baby Reindeer premiered — has only been subject to a court order over her interactions with Richard Gadd, creator of the Emmy-nominated series billed as a “true story.” Appearing before the committee in May, Benjamin King, Netflix’s senior UK director of public policy, said Baby Reindeer was a “true story of the horrific abuse” suffered by Gadd “at the hands of a convicted stalker.” In her Los Angeles federal court suit filed in June, Harvey claimed that the darkly comic series portrayed her via the Martha character as “a twice convicted stalker who was sentenced to five years in prison.” She argued that Baby Reinder’s “true story” billing was “the biggest lie in television history.”
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