{"id":373454,"date":"2026-03-30T19:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373454\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:25:07","slug":"laura-dern-to-star-in-epstein-investigation-limited-series-from-adam-mckay-television-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/373454\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Dern to star in Epstein investigation limited series from Adam McKay | Television & radio"},"content":{"rendered":"

Laura Dern<\/a> is taking on the Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> investigation, in a new limited series executive produced by Adam McKay<\/a> based on journalist Julie K Brown<\/a>\u2019s work busting open the story.<\/p>\n

Dern will play Brown, the Miami Herald investigative reporter on the late, disgraced financier\u2019s tail when no one else was, for the first scripted take on the Epstein case. The screenplay will be based on Brown\u2019s 2021 book Perversion of Injustice: The Jeffrey Epstein<\/a> Story. Sharon Hoffman, a writer on the 2020 limited series Mrs America, will write the project and serve as co-showrunner with Eileen Myers (The Night Agent, Masters of Sex). McKay, the writer-director of Don\u2019t Look Up and executive producer on the HBO juggernaut Succession, among other credits, will serve as executive producer alongside Dern and Brown.<\/p>\n

The as-yet untitled series from Sony Pictures TV will provide \u201can explosive account of an investigative reporter exposing the secret plea deal between Epstein and federal prosecutors\u201d, according to a logline from Sony. \u201cDrawing from Brown\u2019s 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<\/a>\u2019s arrests.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brown\u2019s reporting was crucial to bringing public attention on Epstein, who was convicted of sex trafficking in Florida in 2008. In November 2018, the Miami Herald published her three-part series detailing the cozy relationship between prosecutors and Epstein\u2019s lawyers, and the many rich and powerful people who allegedly turned a blind eye turned to Epstein\u2019s abuses of women and girls. The series, based on interviews with 60 women who claimed to be victims of abuse, brought Epstein\u2019s crimes back into the public consciousness, leading to sex-trafficking charges.<\/p>\n

The series also led to the resignation of Trump\u2019s then labor secretary Alex Acosta. In the mid-2000s, as the US attorney for Florida\u2019s southern district, Acosta signed off on a non-prosecution agreement that blocked any federal charges from Epstein\u2019s first criminal case. Instead, Epstein pleaded guilty to state charges.<\/p>\n

Fallout from Brown\u2019s work continues to play out spectacularly in the US, where the justice department still faces calls<\/a> to release all its documents on Epstein \u2013 including his formerly close friendship<\/a> with Trump \u2013 and abroad. In February, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, whose close association with Epstein led to the stripping of the title Prince Andrew, was arrested<\/a> in England for possible misconduct as trade envoy for the UK. The arrest followed the disclosure of emails exchanged with Epstein.<\/p>\n

Epstein died in jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal charges of sex-trafficking minors. He remains a disgraced figure haunting the Trump presidency, though no allegations against Trump have been substantiated.<\/p>\n

The series is still seeking a buyer, and is yet to go into production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Laura Dern is taking on the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, in a new limited series executive produced by Adam…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":{"0":"post-373454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}