The Hollywood Reporter has been sued by a freelance production accountant who claims that her career and reputation have been damaged by a story wrongly linking her to last year’s Sony cyberattack. Nicole Basile’s suit claims that in a story headlined “Sony Hack: Studio Security Points to Inside Job” incorrectly characterized her as an insider involved in the devastating hacking that paralyzed operations at the studio for weeks. The suit filed on Friday in U.S. District Court in Chicago targets THR’s parent company Prometheus Global Media and also names the authors, THR staffers Gregg Kilday and Tatiana Siegel.
- 11/9/2015
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
The lawsuits over the massive hack of Sony last year may be almost settled but now it seems lawsuits over the coverage have started – at least one. Nicole Basile has slapped The Hollywood Reporter’s parent company Prometheus Global Media and two of the publication’s writers with a defamation suit over a December 2014 article that she claims falsely branded her as one of the hackers.
“This Article has destroyed Ms. Basile’s reputation, rendering her an untouchable within the industry, and destroying her career,” says the complaint from the Chicago-based freelance production accountant (read it here). In her jury trial seeking filing, Basile, who denies having anything to do with the hacking, is seeking a minimum of $75,000 in damages as well as “other and further relief as this Court deems just and appropriate” on what her lawyers estimate to be over $1.4 million in lost earnings since the article came out.
“This Article has destroyed Ms. Basile’s reputation, rendering her an untouchable within the industry, and destroying her career,” says the complaint from the Chicago-based freelance production accountant (read it here). In her jury trial seeking filing, Basile, who denies having anything to do with the hacking, is seeking a minimum of $75,000 in damages as well as “other and further relief as this Court deems just and appropriate” on what her lawyers estimate to be over $1.4 million in lost earnings since the article came out.
- 11/8/2015
- by Dominic Patten
- Deadline Film + TV
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