US EditionLaura Dern to play journalist investigating Epstein in TV series
The series follows Brown’s years-long investigation that identified 80 victims and led to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrests, Sony Pictures Television said.
- 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 Is Set To Star In A New Limited Series About Jeffrey Epstein—But Not Everyone's Happy About It
Well, we've officially reached the part of the Epstein saga where a limited series is being made about the case, and not everyone is happy about it.Oscar winner Laura Dern has been announced as the star of an upcoming Sony series about the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story.Dern will play Julie K. Brown, the Miami Herald journalist whose dogged reporting on the case uncovered a secret plea deal betwee…
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Los Angeles TimesLaura Dern will play journalist who investigated Jeffrey Epstein crimes in a new series
LOS ANGELES — A dream team has assembled to bring a scripted series based on the book “Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story” from the drawing board to the small screen.
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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