"Innocence of Muslims" actress Cindy Lee Garcia, who appeared in the amateur film that triggered deadly riots across North Africa and the Middle East, has filed a lawsuit against YouTube and the film's producer, claiming emotional distress, invasion of privacy, false light, fraud and slander, among other charges. After the "Innocence of Muslims" trailer garnered millions of hits on YouTube, Garcia claims she lost her job, received death threats and is no longer trusted to babysit her grandchildren, according to the complaint she filed to the Los Angeles County Superior Court...
- 9/19/2012
- by Danielle Paquette
- The Wrap
An actress with a bit part in The Innocence of Islam, the film that may have sparked riots in Libya and Egypt, says that the filmmaker behind the project was deceptive about his intentions and mysterious during production. Cindy Lee Garcia (her name is listed as Cindy Lee Davis on IMDb), told Gawker that she was told the film would be a generic story about ancient Egypt titled Desert Warriors. "It was going to be a film based on how things were 2,000 years ago," she told the site. "It wasn't based on anything to do with religion,
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- 9/12/2012
- by Jordan Zakarin
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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