Judge Doesn't Shoot Down Journalist's 'Narcos' Lawsuit
Colombian media personality Virginia Vallejo's copyright infringement suit against the Netflix show "Narcos" is going forward—and it's all thanks to a love scene with a gun.
May 30, 2019 at 05:48 PM
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Colombian media personality Virginia Vallejo's copyright infringement suit against the Netflix show “Narcos” is going forward—and it's all thanks to a love scene with a gun.
Vallejo sued Netflix and its “Narcos” producing partners in August 2018, claiming the show misappropriated several scenes from her 2007 memoir, “Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar.” In one instance, the episode called “The Palace in Flames” reenacts the raid on Colombia's Palace of Justice by the guerrilla group M-19.
Vallejo says the scene in that episode detailing a meeting between Escobar and the head of M-19 comes from her book. There is another scene in the series where Escobar introduces Valeria Velez, noted in the suit as “the character allegedly based on Plaintiff,” to his wife at a political event. Vallejo also says that scene can be found in her book. Lastly, an “intimate encounter” between Escobar and Velez involving a revolver only became public knowledge after the publication of her book, the suit claims.
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