Netflix sued for movie that means record-setting diver killed his spouse
Celeb diver Francisco “Pipín” Ferreras filed a lawsuit in opposition to Netflix on Wednesday, claiming the 2022 movie “No Restrict” implied that he murdered his spouse Audrey Mestre.
Ferreras, 61, named the streaming big in addition to the manufacturing firm Nolita Cinéma and writer-director David M. Rosenthal within the go well with, accusing them of defamation and invasion of privateness, according to the official complaint.
“The Movie is a thinly veiled account of the occasions surrounding the loss of life by drowning of Ferreras’ spouse, Audrey Anne Marie Mestre Ferreras,” reads the doc.
“Netflix, Nolita and Rosenthal made a deliberate choice for dramatic functions to defame Ferreras by exhibiting within the Movie that he murdered Audrey by deliberately sabotaging the tools that ought to have introduced her again to the floor after a world report dive of 561 ft.”
“In actuality, Audrey’s loss of life was an accident and Ferreras risked his life in a useless try to save lots of her.”
The lawsuit is mainly involved with a scene on the finish of the French movie wherein the actor who portrayed Ferreras is seen testing his spouse’s tools earlier than the display fades to black — thus suggesting that he could also be chargeable for sabotaging Mestre’s fateful remaining dive.
The movie, purportedly “impressed by actual occasions,” rapidly rose to the highest of Netflix’s most-watched non-English movies upon launch.
A disclaimer notes that the “movie stays a piece of fiction. Any resemblance with actuality is coincidental.”
The Publish has reached out to Netflix, Nolita, Rosenthal and Ferreras for remark.
On October 12, 2002, the free-diving duo was making an attempt to interrupt the earlier 520-foot “no-limits” world report when Mestre’s oxygen provide ran out upon reaching her goal depth of 561 ft. Ferreras dove in to rescue his spouse, who handed out underwater. She died shortly after they returned to the floor.
In line with consultants and eyewitnesses featured within the 2013 ESPN documentary “Audrey Mestre: The Reality Behind the Deep,” the deliberate dive allegedly lacked the kind of security protocol and first responder presence that may be typical of such a feat.
Ferreras is searching for a trial by jury and searching for damages in addition to “non permanent, preliminary, and everlasting injunctive aid, restraining and enjoining Defendants, their brokers and all individuals performing in live performance with them” from the continued insinuation that he killed his spouse.