The legal battle between Netflix and 1970s Georgian chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili. Queen’s ruse, fell into a stalemate. Both sides notified the court on Monday that they had reached an agreement.
Based on the 1983 novel of the same name, the Emmy Award-winning series chronicles the rise of orphan Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) to the top of the chess world. The show culminates in Harmon beating the best Russian player in his famous 1960s chess tournament.
Gaprindashvili, however, took issue with a fictional chess commentator’s dialogue in the series finale, claiming she had defamed herself. A commentator said of Harmon: And it’s not just Russia. There’s also Nona Gaprindashvili, but she’s the women’s world champion and has never faced a man. ”
In her lawsuit, Gaprindashvili argued that the statement that she had “never met a man” was “clearly false, grossly sexist and derogatory”. By the time it was set in 1968, he had played against at least 59 male chess players, at least 10 of whom were grandmasters.
“Netflix has the cheesy ironic aim of ‘pumping up the drama’ by making it appear that Netflix’s fictional heroes have managed to do what no other woman, including Gaprindashvili, has managed to do.” , brazenly and knowingly lied about Gaprindashvili’s exploits,” the complaint said. “Thus, in a story that was supposed to inspire women by showing young women competing against men at the highest level of world chess, Netflix actually confronts men on the world stage and beats them in the same way. You humiliated the only real female trailblazer to ever beat the era.”
The deal comes after a federal judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit in January.
In a move against Gaprindashvili’s lawsuit under California’s anti-SLAPP law, Netflix said viewers understand the line isn’t true because “fictional works have no obligation to truth.” I was claiming.
U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips has dismissed claims that streamers cannot be sued for defamation of a real person in a work of fiction. She found that Netflix acted in a “reckless disregard” for the truth and that the show referenced Gaprindashvili by her name and documented real people and events. I am writing. Details are built into the series.
Netflix is dissatisfied with this ruling and has filed an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has agreed to review the case before the judgment becomes final.
Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, representing Gaprindashvili, said: hollywood reporter“I’m glad that the problem has been resolved.”
Netflix and its attorneys did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The resolution of this battle takes place immediately after another brewing battle. In August, Rachel Williams — an associate of New York City con artist Anna Sorokin — sued the streamer for defamation for her portrayal in it. Anna’s invention.
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