ViacomCBS rejects Alan Dershowitz's lawsuit threat over The Good Fight's Jeffrey Epstein episode

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Dershowitz's attorneys demanded an apology over the Season 4 finale that connected him with Epstein and referred to him as a "shyster." "You make this complaint on behalf of Professor Alan Dershowitz, a public figure who has long been associated with Jeffrey Epstein, and who has admitted on television to receiving a massage from a woman at Epstein’s mansion,” ViacomCBS attorney Jonathan Anschell wrote in response. “In the non-fictional world, these factors require us to decline your request that we withdraw the episode, and our correspondence could end right here.” Anschell added: "We’re confident that no viewer would conclude that Professor Dershowitz is a shyster based on one line of opinion from a fictional character on the Series, as opposed to the real-life, factual publications that have called him exactly that."