GM Nona Gaprindashvili‘s defamation lawsuit in opposition to Netflix has been settled, with no additional particulars offered by both celebration. The settlement got here eight months after a decide dismissed the streaming and manufacturing firm’s declare that as a result of The Queen’s Gambit is a piece of fiction, it might be immune from defamation fits.

According to The New York Times, attorneys for Gaprindashvili filed papers in federal court docket on Tuesday suggesting that they’d settled the lawsuit whereas additionally submitting a movement to voluntarily dismiss its enchantment within the case. Lawyers of each events are quoted saying they’re “happy the matter is resolved.”

Gaprindashvili (81) is the fifth girls’s world chess champion and the primary feminine participant ever to realize the “normal” grandmaster title. She sued Netflix in September of final 12 months for “false mild invasion of privateness” and defamation after a line within the hit collection The Queen’s Gambit falsely said that she “by no means confronted males” on the chessboard. In actuality, the Georgian chess legend confronted many males in her profession, together with three world champions: GMs Mikhail Tal, Boris Spassky, and Viswanathan Anand.

Netflix wished to have the go well with dismissed, arguing that the collection is a piece of fiction. However, U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips disagreed and famous that Gaprindashvili had made a believable argument that she was defamed in The Queen’s Gambit and made the purpose that works of fiction usually are not immune from defamation fits in the event that they disparage actual folks.

Netflix additionally claimed that, even when believed, the road that claims Gaprindashvili “by no means confronted males” will not be defamatory. The firm argued that for cheap viewers of the collection this line wouldn’t carry an implication of Gaprindashvili’s inferiority, however merely showcase the structural limitations that impeded girls’s development in elite chess within the Nineteen Sixties. The decide disagreed right here as nicely and mentioned the common viewer might simply see the road as disparaging.

The Queen’s Gambit, primarily based on the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis, was launched in October 2020 and was watched by over 62 million households in simply the primary month after its launch. It received two Golden Globes and 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, together with Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series.

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