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Former prosecutor settles lawsuit against Netflix over Central Park Five series

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( ) -q-22- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “later this month.”

Former Manhattan prosecutor Linda Fairstein (FAIR stine) and Netflix have announced they’ve settled the defamation lawsuit she filed four years ago.

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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. Fairstein will not receive any money but a disclaimer will be shown. Netflix has also agreed to donate $1 million to the Innocence Project.

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VERBATIM: The lawsuit was filed over Fairstein’s portrayal in the streaming service’s miniseries about the five Black and Latino teenagers known as the now-exonerated Central Park Five. She had argued that the 2019 four-part series “When They See Us” defamed her by portraying her as a “racist, unethical villain.” The case was expected to go to trial later this month.

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