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    'Hustlers' Producers Come Out Victorious Against Real-Life Stripper's Lawsuit

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    District Court Judge Denise Cote has dismissed Samantha Barbash’s legal claims that Jennifer Lopez based her role of Ramona on her and that the film’s drug use depiction was inaccurate.

    Nov 12, 2020
    AceShowbiz – The real-life stripper who inspired Jennifer Lopez’s character in “Hustlers” has lost her lawsuit for invasion of privacy and defamation.
    Samantha Barbash filed her legal claim in New York in January, claiming J.Lo based her role of Ramona on her, even though she had rejected an offer from executives at the superstar’s Nuyorican Productions company to sign off on the rights to her life story for the hit drama, about a group of exotic dancers who con their wealthy broker clients.
    Barbash, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy, assault, and grand larceny in 2015, also sued for defamation, because Ramona was portrayed as “using and manufacturing illegal substances in her home where she lived with her child” – something she insists never happened.

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    The defendants challenged the allegations and requested the case be dismissed, and on Tuesday, November 10, their wish was granted by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Cote.
    The judge ruled Barbash couldn’t claim invasion of privacy because her “name, portrait, picture, or voice” was never used in the marketing of the film, according to the New York Post.
    Regarding her defamation argument, Judge Cote noted the film’s drug use depiction was inaccurate, but as Barbash failed to prove actual malice, the lawsuit was tossed and the case closed.
    The judge wrote, “Barbash pled guilty to drugging individuals without their consent. The Pressler Article reports that Barbash concocted the recipe for the mixture of illegal drugs that rendered the scheme’s victims vulnerable to the fraud. Nor does the FAC plead that the Defendants acted with malice in asserting that Barbash herself used drugs. That assertion is the least offensive of all of the statements of which Barbash complains and is naturally connected to the scheme to which Barbash pleaded guilty and which she discussed with journalists.”

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      'Hustlers' Director Unveiled to Have Fired Many Extras Caught Ogling Strippers on the Set

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      Opening up about her first experience filming post-Harvey Weinstein scandal, actress Mercedes Rueh claims director Lorene Scafaria ruled with an iron hand to respect the actresses.
      May 26, 2020
      AceShowbiz – “Hustlers” director Lorene Scafaria fired “a number” of extras on the set of the film for “ogling” the strippers.
      Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu starred in the 2019 movie, which told the story of a group of women working at a strip club who drugged and robbed their customers to make money.
      Numerous scenes in the film featured the stars wearing scanty ensembles, and several of the extras couldn’t resist having a sneaky peek. But director Lorene didn’t stand for it, and axed the culprits from the movie.
      Mercedes Rueh, who also starred in the film, told News On Media: “Obviously it was a lot of strippers and a lot of T and A and everything, and boy, did she rule with an iron hand. There was nobody on that set who was anything but entirely respectful of all the women. In fact, the more they came out with less clothing on, the less the guys on set would look at them.”
      “They didn’t even want to get caught ogling because there were a number of extras who were fired, whether it was remarks that they made or just ogling the girls. It was my first post-Harvey (Weinstein) experience, and it was really interesting because this young woman kept a tight grasp on respect for the actresses.”

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      Jennifer Lopez Says She Doesn't Need Oscars to Tell Her That She Did Good Job in 'Hustlers'

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      Following the Academy Award snub, the ‘On the Floor’ hitmaker finally realizes she doesn’t need people’s validation to tell her that her onscreen performance is good.
      Mar 2, 2020
      AceShowbiz – Jennifer Lopez’s Oscars snub for her role in “Hustlers” helped her realise she “doesn’t need this award right here to tell me that I am enough.”
      The star was hotly tipped for awards success for her acclaimed role as Ramona in the 2019 box office hit, also starring Cardi B, Constance Wu, and Lizzo.
      While she failed to bag a nomination on the Academy Awards shortlist, the singer/actress told Oprah Winfrey during her 2020 Oprah’s 2020 Vision Tour on Saturday, February 29, 2020 in Los Angeles, the 50-year-old confessed the incident worked out well for her after all.
      “I was sad, I was a little sad because there was a lot of buildup to it. There were so many articles, I got so many good notices – more than ever in my career – and there was a lot of ‘She’s going to get nominated for an Oscar, it’s going to happen, if it doesn’t you’re crazy,’ ” she said, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

      Despite the snub, the “On the Floor” star said she had to look at all the accomplishments she received over the past 12 months, including her massive It’s My Party Tour in honour of her 50th birthday, and her headlining slot at the Super Bowl Halftime Show alongside Shakira, which helped her realise there was more to life than accolades.
      “You want people’s validation, you want people to say you did a good job,” she said. “And I realised, ‘No you don’t need that, you do this because you love it,’ eventually realising that ‘I don’t need this award right here to tell me that I am enough.’ ”

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      Jennifer Lopez and 'Hustlers' Dragged by Academy Voter Following Criticisms Over Oscar Snub

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      An anonymous male producer and an unnamed actress share their ‘brutally honest’ thoughts on the movies that receive nominations at this year’s Academy Awards.
      Feb 8, 2020
      AceShowbiz – When the Oscar nominations were announced in January, The Academy faced backlash for excluding Jennifer Lopez from the list. While many people felt her performance in “Hustlers” was brilliant and deserved a recognition, a male producer who’s a member of The Academy thought otherwise.
      In The Hollywood Reporter’s annual “brutally honest Oscar ballot,” the voter said, “f**k J.Lo. I’m allergic to that movie. It isn’t a movie about ’empowering’ women; it’s a movie about slipping a**hole men roofies and f**king jacking them. Roger Corman made better stripper films – they had some meaning.”
      The producer was not a fan of Harriet Tubman movie either. “Cynthia [Erivo] was really, really good, but Harriet didn’t really have the guts that 12 Years a Slave had,” he lamented. “It was like the glossy Disney version of what slavery was.”
      Meanwhile, a female Oscar member called “Little Women”, of which director Greta Gerwig was among this year’s snub, “badly acted and confusing.” In her brutally honest commentaries, the anonymous actress criticized the casting, “I have no idea why they cast four British actresses to play American girls.”
      While Emma Watson and Florence Pugh are indeed British, Saoirse Ronan is in fact Irish-American and Eliza Scanlen is actually Australian.
      The voter additionally had a problem with the poverty portrayed in the period drama, “Every time they said they were poor, I gagged – they’re living in a beautiful two-story house, and they have a cook.”
      She also criticized “The Irishman”, “If someone besides Martin Scorsese had directed The Irishman, it wouldn’t have all the accolades; it does because of his years in the business. It was too long and too repetitive, and the reverse-aging did not work – they erased the lines in their faces, but they still walked like old men.”

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