‘Final Likelihood U’ Star Jason Brown
Recordsdata $30 Million Lawsuit In opposition to Netflix
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Former school soccer coach Jason Brown — who starred on Netflix’s “Last Chance U” docuseries — is now suing the streaming big over the present … for a whopping $30 million.
The ex-Independence Neighborhood Faculty sideline supervisor alleged within the go well with, which was filed in Los Angeles County this week, that Netflix and its “Last Chance U” producers value him a fortune by, amongst different issues, “portraying him in a false and offensive light through selective editing and misrepresentation.”
Brown says he initially agreed to be part of the sequence again in June 2017 … after he claims producers assured him he’d garner optimistic publicity from being on digicam. He alleges one exec truly informed him, “Colleges will be calling you after this airs.”
However, Brown said Netflix proceeded to color him as a villain within the two seasons he was on. He stated producers “cut, pasted, edited, and distorted” footage “to depict him as a volatile, abusive tyrant for their financial gain.”
One occasion specifically that he says actually damage him was in February 2019 — when he despatched a textual content message to a scholar that made a Hitler reference. Brown says Netflix “dramatized” the scenario — and he says $600,000 provides he needed to coach NCAA applications and XFL groups had been pulled after the present aired.
In complete, Brown — who truly informed TMZ Sports activities final month that he was mulling the lawsuit — says he is out $10 mil in misplaced revenue, $10 mil in reputational harm and $5 mil in emotional misery. He additionally desires $5 million in punitive damages.
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Brown is just not the primary star from “Last Chance U” to pull Netflix to courtroom over the present … Ronald Ollie, John Franklin III, Cary Sidney Reavis II, DeAndre Johnson, Tim Bonner and Isaiah Wright additionally filed a lawsuit in opposition to the streaming big in February with comparable allegations to Brown.
Netflix, for its half, has but to publicly touch upon the pending litigation.
