Since Jeffrey Epstein died under mysterious circumstances in his prison cell in August 2019 while awaiting sex-trafficking charges, and his right-hand woman Ghislaine Maxwell received 20 years behind bars for her part in the sex-trafficking operation (in a low-security prison, without having to name names), there’s still an overwhelming air of suspicion, confusion, and anger surrounding the notorious pedophile and the rich-and-powerful men who found themselves in his inner circle. Justice doesn’t seem like it’s been served when Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and other Masters of the...
- 8/21/2023
- by Marlow Stern
- Rollingstone.com
Exclusive: Here’s a hot one. Jodie Comer is to star in a series based on Jen Beagin’s upcoming book Big Swiss.
HBO landed the project, which comes from A24 and Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries, in a really competitive battle against 14 bidders, Deadline understands. The project is in development at the premium cable network, which we hear is really keen on the limited series concept.
It marks the first major series Comer as she comes off the fourth and final season of Killing Eve.
Big Swiss follows a woman, who after starting a new life anonymously transcribing sex therapy sessions in Hudson, NY, becomes fixated with one of the patients, leading to an obsessive, explosive relationship between the two. Comer stars as Flavia aka Big Swiss.
Comer will exec produce with author Jen Beagin on the project.
Beagin is the author of Pretend I’m Dead and Vacuum In The Dark.
HBO landed the project, which comes from A24 and Adam McKay’s Hyperobject Industries, in a really competitive battle against 14 bidders, Deadline understands. The project is in development at the premium cable network, which we hear is really keen on the limited series concept.
It marks the first major series Comer as she comes off the fourth and final season of Killing Eve.
Big Swiss follows a woman, who after starting a new life anonymously transcribing sex therapy sessions in Hudson, NY, becomes fixated with one of the patients, leading to an obsessive, explosive relationship between the two. Comer stars as Flavia aka Big Swiss.
Comer will exec produce with author Jen Beagin on the project.
Beagin is the author of Pretend I’m Dead and Vacuum In The Dark.
- 3/16/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Two of Jeffrey Epstein’s underage victims in Florida filed a shocking defamation lawsuit Thursday against Miami Herald reporter Julie K. Brown. Brown’s award-winning investigation into the disgraced financier’s prior sweetheart deal with prosecutors helped trigger Epstein’s 2019 sex trafficking indictment.
Plaintiffs Haley Robson and Courtney Wild claim in their new complaint filed in Miami-Dade County that the celebrated journalist made “false and defamatory” statements about them in her 2021 book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.
“Brown falsely stated that Ms. Wild was raped by Epstein and...
Plaintiffs Haley Robson and Courtney Wild claim in their new complaint filed in Miami-Dade County that the celebrated journalist made “false and defamatory” statements about them in her 2021 book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.
“Brown falsely stated that Ms. Wild was raped by Epstein and...
- 2/4/2022
- by Nancy Dillon
- Rollingstone.com
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