Showtime, Andrew Ross Sorkin Hit With Lawsuit Over ‘Billions’ Character
Showtime Networks and the creators of the series “Billions” were sued Monday by Denise Shull, an author and Wall Street performance coach who says that the Wendy Rhoades character from the series is a rip-off of her work.
In her suit, filed in federal court in New York, Denise Shull, described in the suit as “an expert in neuroeconomics, modern psychoanalysis and neuropsychoanalysis,” says that the Rhoades character, portrayed by Maggie Siff, infringes on her 2012 book “Market Mind Games.” According to the complaint, in the book, Shull “created a fictionalized retelling of her experiences and observations in the form of an in-house female performance coach for a hedge fund.”
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