‘Last Chance U’ stars sue Netflix, others for $30M
Six former junior college football players are seeking $30 million in a lawsuit that claims they were portrayed inaccurately on the Netflix docuseries “Last Chance U,” Front Office Sports reported Tuesday.
The athletes, who were featured on the show while playing at East Mississippi Community College during the 2015 and 2016 seasons, reportedly filed the suit in Los Angeles earlier this month.
Netflix, East Mississippi Community College, the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), production company Conde Nast and the executive producer of “Last Chance U” were listed as defendants in the case.
The players argued that they were portrayed in “misleading, offensive, or highly objectionable” ways and were not paid for appearing in the successful docuseries, even though East Mississippi Community College profited through merchandise sales and Nast got “a large amount of money from Netflix.
“Make no mistake, each of the defendants have been unjustly enriched by intruding upon the private lives of the plaintiffs, taking unfair advantage of them through defendants’ superior bargaining power, manipulating many of plaintiffs’ characters, along with other means for their own financial gain while sacrificing any decent reputation plaintiffs had,” John Pierce, the players’ attorney, wrote in the suit.
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