‘Central Park Five’ Prosecutor Settles Netflix Defamation Lawsuit

Just days before Linda Fairstein’s defamation lawsuit against Netflix was set to go to trial in Manhattan federal court, the prosecutor of the now-exonerated Central Park Five ended her years-long legal battle over the docudrama When They See Us with a no-money settlement.

In her September 2020 lawsuit, Fairstein claimed the four-part series about five teens convicted of raping and beating a white jogger contained defamatory scenes that portrayed her “as a racist, unethical villain who is determined to jail innocent children of color at any cost.”

A joint statement from Fairstein, Netflix, director Ava DuVernay, and writer Attica Locke said Netflix will donate $1 million to the Innocence Project as part of the settlement.

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