Netflix settles defamation lawsuit with chess champion Nona Gaprindashvili, who sued the streamer over her portrayal in 'The Queen's Gambit.'
Nona Gaprindashvili sued Netflix last year, objecting to a scene in which a commentator refers to Gaprindashvili while narrating a match between protagonist Beth Harmon and fictional Russian Grandmaster Viktor Laev at the Moscow Invitational tournament.
Gaprindashvili’s $5-million lawsuit challenged the show’s characterization of her never competing with men in chess in 1968, when the final episode takes place. The commentator says, “There’s Nona Gaprindashvili, but she’s the female world champion and has never faced men.” Gaprindashvili’s lawsuit said she had played against at least 59 male chess players by 1968.
To say she never faced men is “manifestly false, as well as being grossly sexist and belittling,” according to Gaprindashvili’s lawsuit, filed last year.The settlement comes after a judge in January denied Netflix’s motion to dismiss the lawsuit. Netflix had argued that the series is fiction and the line “is not stated by an objective narrator, but rather as dialogue by a fictional character who is, himself, a part of the gender-segregated chess world that the Series depicts.
“The Queen’s Gambit” won multiple Emmys last year, including for limited series. The show tells the coming-of-age story of aBoth Netflix and Alexander Rufus-Isaacs, Gaprindashvili’s attorney, said in statements that they were pleased that the matter has been resolved. Both parties declined to discuss the terms of the settlement.
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