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Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, nan New York Times bestelling book by investigative journalist Julie K. Brown, is successful nan useful for tv pinch Oscar, Emmy and Golden Globe victor Laura attached to prima and executive produce. Sony Pictures Television is hitting nan marketplace pinch nan timely project, a constricted series, produced by Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries.
The arena bid is described arsenic an an explosive relationship of an investigative newsman exposing nan concealed plea woody betwixt Epstein and national prosecutors. Drawing from Brown’s acquisition arsenic a groundbreaking newsman for the Miami Herald, nan book and nan constricted bid travel her relentless years-long investigation that identified 80 victims, persuaded cardinal survivors to spell connected nan record, and led to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrests.
Sharon Hoffman (Mrs. America, House of Cards), penned nan script. She and Eileen Myers (American Hostage, Masters of Sex) will service arsenic co-showrunners and executive producers, pinch McKay, Kevin Messick, Brown, and Dern besides serving arsenic executive producers.
Brown, an investigative journalist pinch the Miami Herald, is champion known for pursuing the sex trafficking story surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, who successful 2008 was allowed to plead blameworthy to 2 state-level adultery offenses. She received two George Polk Awards for Justice Reporting, on pinch different honors. Brown besides was included successful Time magazine’s 100 astir influential group of 2020.
Donald Trump, who had a societal narration pinch Epstein, has been dogged by nan Epstein files passim his 2nd word successful office. While Trump has ne'er been charged pinch a crime successful relationship to Epstein, their past ties person faced aggravated scrutiny.
