The female who allegedly inspired the serial stalker character at the heart of Netflixâs strike miniseries âBaby Reindeerâ has sued the streaming giant for negligence and defamation.
Fiona Harvey filed a $170-million grievance Thursday in United States district court in California, alleging that Netflix and âBaby Reindeerâ creator Richard Gadd informed âbrutal liesâ about her in an exertion to âattract extra viewers,â âmake much more moneyâ and âviciously destroyâ her existence.
Harvey is rumored to be the genuine-daily life Martha Scott â the stalker performed by Jessica Gunning in the well known Television adaptation of Gaddâs a person-male clearly show. In certain, Harveyâs lawsuit will take difficulty with Netflix depicting Martha as a two times-convicted stalker who sexually assaults Gaddâs character and is sentenced to jail.
âDefendants informed these lies, and in no way stopped, since it was a superior story than the fact,â the complaint reads, âand far better stories manufactured funds.â
Associates for Netflix and Gadd did not instantly react Thursday to requests for remark.
As Harveyâs lawsuit details out, the pilot episode of âBaby Reindeerâ opens with the information, âthis is a genuine story.â
The demonstrate stars Gadd as Donny Dunn, a struggling Scottish stand-up comedian whose lifetime begins to unravel when a woman wanders into the bar the place he operates and develops an unhealthy obsession with him..
Although Gadd has reported that he and Netflix went to great lengths to obscure the id of his authentic stalker, Harvey says in her lawsuit that Donny and Marthaâs use of the phrase âhang my curtainsâ as a euphemism for intercourse in âBaby Reindeerâ brought about thousands of online consumers to interrogate and suspect the character was based mostly on her.
According to the complaint, the rampant speculation stemmed from a 2014 tweet by @FionaHarvey2014 that tagged @MrRichardGadd and read through, âmy curtains need hung badly.â
Harvey has because spoken publicly about her alleged history with Gadd and disputed some of the plot factors in âBaby Reindeer.â She alleges in her lawsuit that Netflix âdid nothingâ to actuality-check out Gaddâs generation when generating the present.
Harvey is trying to find a jury trial.
Before this week, Netflix settled yet another defamation lawsuit brought by previous New York Metropolis prosecutor Linda Fairstein in excess of her portrayal in Ava DuVernayâs Emmy-successful limited sequence âWhen They See Us.â
Periods archivist James Kim contributed to this report.