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A British pistillate who claims she was the inspiration for the stalker successful the smash Netflix deed “Baby Reindeer” sued the streamer Thursday, demanding $170 cardinal successful damages.
Fiona Harvey has identified herself arsenic the real-life “Martha,” the delusional, convulsive and abusive pistillate astatine the halfway of Richard Gadd’s planetary phenomenon, which claims successful its opening occurrence to beryllium “a existent story.”
“The supra quote… is the biggest prevarication successful tv history,” the lawsuit, filed successful California, says.
“It is simply a prevarication told by Netflix and the show’s creator, Richard Gadd, retired of greed and lust for fame; a prevarication designed to pull much viewers, get much attention, to marque much money, and to viciously destruct the beingness of Plaintiff, Fiona Harvey.”
In a connection to AFP, a Netflix spokesperson said: “We mean to support this substance vigorously and to basal by Richard Gadd’s close to archer his story.”
The seven-episode bid premiered connected Netflix successful April and rapidly became a immense hit.
The show, based connected Gadd’s one-man play, follows a fictionalized mentation of the writer who meets a pistillate successful the pub wherever helium works.
What unspools implicit the pursuing episodes is simply a profoundly disturbing years-long ordeal for Gadd successful which Martha sends thousands of emails, texts and dependable messages arsenic she harasses him, his woman and his family.
Martha, who the amusement claims to person been antecedently convicted for stalking a lawyer, is besides shown to sexually battle Gadd.
The British writer and performer has told journalists that helium changed details astir Martha successful an effort to support her identity, but armchair detectives rapidly tracked her down and began contacting her connected societal media.
After being outed, Harvey appeared connected British television, denying that she had bombarded Gadd with messages, oregon that she had attacked him oregon his girlfriend.
“The lies that Defendants told astir Harvey to implicit 50 cardinal radical worldwide see that Harvey is simply a doubly convicted stalker who was sentenced to 5 years successful prison, and that Harvey sexually assaulted Gadd,” the suit says.
“Defendants told these lies, and ne'er stopped, due to the fact that it was a amended communicative than the truth, and amended stories made money.
“And Netflix, a multinational cardinal dollar amusement streaming institution did virtually thing to corroborate the ‘true story’ that Gadd told.”
The suit against Netflix alleges defamation, intentional infliction of affectional distress and negligence, among different claims, and demands $170 million.
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