Sofia Vergara and Netflix are being sued over her function as Columbian drug queen within the upcoming collection Griselda.
The actress stars because the late Griselda Blanco within the collection—and Blanco’s youngsters aren’t blissful about it.
They’re attempting to get a decide to grant an injunction to forestall the discharge of the six-part collection, which is because of premiere on January 25.
Vergara, 51, who’s additionally an govt producer on the present, is reportedly nearly unrecognizable within the function.
Blanco, who was nicknamed the Cocaine Queen, ran her drug operation from Miami for round 30 years between the Nineteen Seventies and early 2000s and was extensively feared for her violent strategy to enterprise.
She ran her drug cartel from behind bars for a lot of this time, after being sentenced to fifteen years in 1985. She was launched from jail in 2004 and assassinated in a drive-by bike capturing in Colombia in 2012 when she was 69.
Blanco’s son Michael Corleone claims he did a number of interviews with writers who needed to develop Blanco’s story right into a e book or movie.
He alleges the Netflix collection makes use of numerous these anecdotes, however he was by no means paid for them.
He and his siblings are suing Netflix claiming they ripped off his household’s story with out permission and that their photos and likenesses had been used within the collection with out their permission.
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