"It’s very clear that at some point you can go over the line and the First Amendment would not protect you. What is not clear is where that line is. "
It’s a legal conflict that centers on a love affair.
In the movie, Ana Maria Martinez is played by the bewitching Ana De Armas, dancing through nightclubs in backless dresses and marrying a handsome Cuban defector with a dark secret at a society wedding.
But in real life, Martinez is suing Netflix for defamation in South Florida federal court over her portrayal in the 2019 film “Wasp Network.”
The film, which dramatizes efforts by the Castro regime during the 1990s to infiltrate and spy on Cuban exile political groups in Miami, says it is “based on true events.”
But in her lawsuit, Martinez and her attorneys call the spy thriller’s version of the near past “false and defamatory.”
Read more at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel