Netflix faces $5 Million defamation suit for ‘sexist’ line in ‘The Queen’s Gambit’

Nona Gaprindashvili, the world's first female grandmaster, filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against Netflix. The suit will go ahead, according to a Los Angeles judge.

The Georgian chess master filed a suit in September, which claimed that a line from the "The Queen's Gambit" series, where a character incorrectly states that she had "never faced men", is "grossly sexist and belittling".

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Nona had faced dozens of male competitors by 1968, the year in which the wildly popular limited series "The Queen's Gambit" is mainly set.

The streaming giant had previously tried to dismiss the defamation suit, arguing that the series is a piece of fiction.