Exclusive: Sony Pictures Television will shop the story of Jeffrey Epstein’s human-trafficking crimes as a limited series after optioning Conchita Sarnoff’s book TrafficKing. The studio has come on board the project after More/Medavoy Management had previously optioned the book, and Sarnoff’s life rights, for television in July.
Separately, publisher Post Hill Press has signed a deal with the author to publish her follow-up book The Cover Up, as well as an updated version of TrafficKing, following Epstein’s death last month in prison.
Sony TV is in the process of attaching a writer to the project before taking it out to the market. The move was made by Spt’s Svp Limited Series and Movies Tom Patricia.
TrafficKing explores the “darkest recesses of the corridors of power, from Harvard to the White House.” The Cover Up, meanwhile, will reveal why the pedophile billionaire, Wall Street hedge...
Separately, publisher Post Hill Press has signed a deal with the author to publish her follow-up book The Cover Up, as well as an updated version of TrafficKing, following Epstein’s death last month in prison.
Sony TV is in the process of attaching a writer to the project before taking it out to the market. The move was made by Spt’s Svp Limited Series and Movies Tom Patricia.
TrafficKing explores the “darkest recesses of the corridors of power, from Harvard to the White House.” The Cover Up, meanwhile, will reveal why the pedophile billionaire, Wall Street hedge...
- 9/25/2019
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Updated with attorney general statement: Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been found dead of an apparent suicide in his New York jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, the medical examiner’s office in Manhattan confirmed to Deadline. An FBI investigations of his death is underway.
Attorney General William Barr said he is “appalled” by Epstein death by hanging at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a facility that’s under the jurisdiction of his Justice Department. ““Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered,” Barr said in a statement. “In addition to the FBI’s investigation, I have consulted with the Inspector General who is opening an investigation into the circumstances of Mr. Epstein’s death.”
Epstein had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking of girls as young as 14 and faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted. His death comes just weeks after Epstein was...
Attorney General William Barr said he is “appalled” by Epstein death by hanging at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, a facility that’s under the jurisdiction of his Justice Department. ““Mr. Epstein’s death raises serious questions that must be answered,” Barr said in a statement. “In addition to the FBI’s investigation, I have consulted with the Inspector General who is opening an investigation into the circumstances of Mr. Epstein’s death.”
Epstein had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking of girls as young as 14 and faced up to 45 years in prison if convicted. His death comes just weeks after Epstein was...
- 8/10/2019
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
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