Just days before Linda Fairstein’s defamation lawsuit against Netflix was set to go to trial in Manhattan federal court, the prosecutor of the now-exonerated Central Park Five ended her years-long legal battle over the docudrama When They See Us with a no-money settlement.

In her September 2020 lawsuit, Fairstein claimed the four-part series about five teens convicted of raping and beating a white jogger contained defamatory scenes that portrayed her “as a racist, unethical villain who is determined to jail innocent children of color at any cost.”

A joint statement from Fairstein, Netflix, director Ava DuVernay, and writer Attica Locke said Netflix will donate $1 million to the Innocence Project as part of the settlement.

“Ms. Fairstein will not receive any money as part of this settlement,” it........

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