Laura Dern will star as the award-winning journalist Julie K. Brown in the limited TV series Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story. Variety reported that Sony Pictures Television is shopping the project, which is based on the 2021 book by Brown, "who put a renewed spotlight on Epstein and his crimes."
The series is described 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."
Sharon Hoffman (Mrs. America, House of Cards) will adapt the book for the screen and serve as executive producer and co-showrunner alongside Eileen Myers (American Hostage, Masters of Sex). Other exec producers include Dern, Brown, Adam McKay, and Kevin Messick via Hyperobject Industries.
"Should the project find a home and go to series, which seems highly likely, it would be the first scripted series about the Epstein case," Variety noted.