Linda Fairstein
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Posted Monday 8/09/21 at 7:01PM EDT
Judge allows Linda Fairstein to proceed with her When They See Us defamation suit against Ava DuVernay and Netflix
Fairstein, whose reputation suffered greatly after Felicity Huffman portrayed her in the 2019 limited series on the "Central Park Five"...
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Posted Thursday 9/24/20 at 6:10PM EDT
Florida judge lets Netflix move Linda Fairstein's When They See Us defamation lawsuit to New York
Fairstein sued the streaming service in March, alleging that she was wrongfully depicted on the limited series on the Central...
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Posted Wednesday 3/18/20 at 12:46PM EDT
Linda Fairstein sues Netflix and Ava DuVernay for When They See Us' portrayal of her as a “racist, unethical villain"
The prosecutor of the so-called Central Park Five, who was portrayed by Felicity Huffman, filed a lawsuit filed today in...
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Posted Saturday 1/04/20 at 12:06AM EST
When They See Us continues to haunt Linda Fairstein: Amy Klobuchar's campaign says it will return her donation
The controversial sex-crimes prosecutor involved in the Central Park Five case donated $1,000 in March to the Democratic presidential candidate.
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Posted Friday 11/15/19 at 10:08AM EST
Linda Fairstein gets the hero treatment in The Preppy Murder after When They See Us portrayed her as a villain
The former New York City Assistant District Attorney felt the heat last summer after Felicity Huffman's portrayed her in a...
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Posted Wednesday 6/19/19 at 9:35PM EDT
Ken Burns' The Central Park Five documentary is proof that When They See Us got the story right
Burns' 2012 Peabody-winning PBS documentary on the five youths accused of raping a jogger in Central Park, which is currently...
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Posted Tuesday 6/18/19 at 9:53PM EDT
President Trump still thinks the so-called Central Park Five are guilty, refuses to apologize
The president was asked today if he'd apologize over the 1989 case that has made headlines since Netflix's When They...
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Posted Wednesday 6/12/19 at 10:02PM EDT
More When They See Us fallout: Columbia Law School drops "Central Park Five" prosecutor Elizabeth Lederer
Lederer, the prosecutor of the so-called Central Park Five whom Vera Farmiga played on the Netflix limited series, was dropped...
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Posted Wednesday 6/12/19 at 2:50AM EDT
How accurate is Linda Fairstein's Op-Ed calling When They See Us an "outright fabrication"?
The former prosecutor who led the case against the so-called Central Park Five wrote in The Wall Street Journal that...
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Posted Tuesday 6/11/19 at 1:23PM EDT
Linda Fairstein calls Ava DuVernay's When They See Us an "outright fabrication" in Op-Ed
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, the former prosecutor of the so-called Central Park Five describes the Netflix series as...
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Posted Monday 6/10/19 at 8:28AM EDT
When The See Us' "The Exonerated Five" fulfill their dream of Oprah interviewing them on stage
Oprah, an executive producer on When They See Us, interviewed the five men formerly known as "The Central Park Five"...
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Posted Saturday 6/08/19 at 4:07AM EDT
Linda Fairstein went from law enforcement hero to pariah in less than a week, thanks to When They See Us
As one of the first leaders of the Manhattan district attorney’s sex crimes unit that inspired Law & Order: Special...
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Posted Friday 6/07/19 at 7:37PM EDT
Publisher drops Linda Fairstein amid When They See Us fallout
The prosecutor in the Central Park jogger case, who was forced to resign from multiple charity boards earlier this week...
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Felicity Huffman's college cheating scandal inadvertently let the When They See Us cast shine
Linda Fairstein, the former prosecutor of the five youths in the Central Park jogger case, has become a headline-generating villain...
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Posted Tuesday 6/04/19 at 7:09PM EDT
When They See Us fallout prompts ex-prosecutor Linda Fairstein to resign from charity boards
Fairstein, the former Manhattan sex crimes prosecutor whom Felicity Huffman portrays on the Netflix series, wrote in her resignation from...