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Why ‘Baby Reindeer’ and Other ‘True Story’ Netflix Shows Keep Landing in Legal Trouble
Netflix shows like 'Baby Reindeer' are streaming hits, but are the legal issues that come with their 'true story' claims worth it?
In March, Netflix’s motion to dismiss a suit brought by Rachel DeLoache Williams, a former Vanity Fair photo editor painted harshly in the 2022 series “Inventing Anna,” was denied and is now in the discovery phase. Dancer Miranda Derrick says she received a flood of death threats following the May 29 release of Netflix’s “Dancing for the Devil: The 7M TikTok Cult.” The documentary presents her as a brainwashed member of the Shekinah Church. And the streamer was forced to write a $1 million check, albeit to a nonprofit, and move a disclaimer from the end credits to the beginning of Ava DuVernay’s 2019 limited series “When They See Us” on the eve of a defamation trial.
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