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And Linda Fairstein, a former Manhattan prosecutor, was upset when she felt she looked racist in When They See Us, a drama about a 1989 miscarriage of justice. The former Soviet chess grandmaster Nona Gaprindashvili has taken action against the company for implying in its hit drama Queen’s Gambit that her character had not regularly competed against men. Netflix has not commented on the case, but her claim is one of several recent attempts to get compensation from the streaming giant after an allegedly unfair portrayal in a drama.

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Rachel DeLoache Williams said her screen portrayal in the Netflix series Inventing Anna made her look ‘greedy and snobbish’. Her defamation lawsuit argues that she appears “a greedy, snobbish, disloyal, dishonest, cowardly, manipulative and opportunistic person”. Rachel DeLoache Williams, a former associate and financial victim of Anna Sorokin, who used social media to con her way into the bank accounts of high-society Americans, is just one of the latest combatants on an increasingly crowded legal battlefield. Last week, the former Vanity Fair photo editor portrayed as a key character in Inventing Anna chose to ignore the playful tone of the show’s disclaimer and said she would sue Netflix over her portrayal. And when some of those improbable events really did take place, then litigation is a growing risk. Yet even a heavily fictionalised, improbable story can be judged to have impugned real people. “It is the stated position of the United States Air Force that their safeguards would prevent the occurrence of such events as are depicted in this film,” director Stanley Kubrick’s audience is informed.

It is a trick that is by now almost a cinematic cliche, with notable examples including the words that open the apocalyptic 1964 comedy, Dr Strangelove.

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