A television series based on the investigation into pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein is reportedly in the works.
The show is based on Miami Herald journalist Julie K Brown’s book, Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story, with Laura Dern set to star as Brown as she attempts to uncover the truth about Epstein and his many crimes.
Variety reports that Adam McKay, best known as the director of Anchorman and more recent politically-minded films including The Big Short and Don’t Look Up, is attached as an executive producer. Sony Pictures Television is trying to find a buyer for the project.
An official description of the series describes it as “an explosive account of an investigative reporter exposing the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors.
“Drawing from Brown’s experience as a groundbreaking reporter for the Miami Herald, the book and the limited series follow her relentless years-long investigation that identified 80 victims, persuaded key survivors to go on the record, and led to Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s arrests.”
Screenwriter Sharon Hoffman, whose credits include Mrs. America and House of Cards, is adapting the book and is expected to be co-showrunner alongside Eileen Myers, a writer-producer known for Big Love, American Hostage and Masters of Sex.
Last December, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee demanded answers from the Department of Justice after details of a flight taken by Brown turned up in the late pedophile’s files.
Brown wrote on X: “Does somebody at the DOJ want to tell me why my American Airlines booking information and flights in July 2019 are part of the Epstein files (attached to a grand jury subpoena)?
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“As the flight itinerary includes my maiden name (and I did book this flight) why was the DOJ monitoring me?”
Brown also addressed the matter in a post on Substack in which she said she had “expected” to see her name in the Epstein files because of her reporting, but added: “What I didn’t expect to see was an American Airlines flight record from 2019 with my full name on them, including my maiden name, which I don’t use professionally. It’s an unusual name, so it’s clear it’s me.”
Her X message was reposted by the official Oversight Dems account with the comment: “The Department of Justice needs to explain why travel information and booking itineraries for a journalist are in the Epstein files.”
Epstein was a billionaire pedophile and sex trafficker who died by suicide in a New York City jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial.