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Laura Dern to play journalist investigating Epstein in TV series
- Sony Pictures Television announced on Monday that Laura Dern will star in a limited series chronicling Miami Herald investigative journalist Julie K. Brown's investigation into the Jeffrey Epstein case.
- Adapting Brown's book, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, the series details her years-long investigation into Epstein's sex trafficking ring and secret plea deals with federal prosecutors.
- Screenwriter Sharon Hoffman and Eileen Myers are writing and executive producing alongside Adam McKay and Kevin Messick of Hyperobject Industries, marking the first scripted series about the Epstein scandal.
- Addressing her own inclusion in the Epstein files, Brown stated she "expected" to see her name but was surprised by an American Airlines flight record from 2019 with her maiden name.
- Brown's career, which earned her two George Polk Awards for Justice Reporting, includes identifying more than 80 alleged victims—a focus the series will showcase as details remain under wraps.
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Laura Dern to play journalist investigating Epstein in TV series
Actor Laura Dern has been attached to star in a Sony Pictures Television series about a Miami journalist’s investigative reporting into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Dern, who starred in the “Jurassic Park” franchise and late director David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet,” “Wild at Heart” and “Inland Empire,” will depict Julie K. Brown, a Miami Herald…
It will be a film adaptation of the book by journalist Julie K. Brown's “Perversion of Justice: The Story of Geoffrey Epstein.”
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