‘Final Probability U’ Star Jason Brown Recordsdata $30 Million Lawsuit In opposition to Netflix

Former school soccer coach Jason Brown — who starred on Netflix’s “Final Probability U” docuseries — is now suing the streaming large over the present … for a whopping $30 million.

The ex-Independence Neighborhood Faculty sideline supervisor alleged within the go well with, which was filed in Los Angeles County this week, that Netflix and its “Final Probability U” producers price him a fortune by, amongst different issues, “portraying him in a false and offensive gentle by way of selective modifying and misrepresentation.”

Brown says he initially agreed to be part of the sequence again in June 2017 … after he claims producers assured him he’d garner constructive publicity from being on digital camera. He alleges one exec truly advised him, “Faculties might be calling you after this airs.”

However, Brown said Netflix proceeded to color him as a villain within the two seasons he was on. He stated producers “lower, pasted, edited, and distorted” footage “to depict him as a risky, abusive tyrant for his or her monetary achieve.”

One occasion particularly that he says actually harm him was in February 2019 — when he despatched a textual content message to a scholar that made a Hitler reference. Brown says Netflix “dramatized” the scenario — and he says $600,000 gives he needed to coach NCAA applications and XFL groups had been pulled after the present aired.

In complete, Brown — who truly advised TMZ Sports activities final month that he was mulling the lawsuit — says he is out $10 mil in misplaced revenue, $10 mil in reputational harm and $5 mil in emotional misery. He additionally desires $5 million in punitive damages.