Two regulation enforcement officers within the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Workplace, Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, have filed a lawsuit in opposition to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon‘s manufacturing firm Artists Fairness over “The Rip,” the Netflix crime drama directed by Joe Carnahan that launched on the streamer in January.
As reported by Entertainment Weekly: “Smith and Santana allege the characters played by Affleck and Damon in the movie have caused them ‘substantial harm to their personal and professional reputations’ because the movie and its advertisements ‘imply misconduct, poor judgment and unethical behavior in connection with a real law enforcement operation.’”
Selection has reached out to a consultant for Artists Fairness for remark.
“The Rip” stars Damon and Affleck as lieutenant Dane Dumars and detective sergeant J.D. Byrne, respectively, two regulation enforcement officers within the Miami-Dade Police Division who uncover corruption of their ranks linked to $20 million of cartel money. The solid additionally featured Steven Yeun, Teyana Taylor, Sasha Calle and Kyle Chandler.
Smith and Santana’s lawsuit claims a real-life case from June 2016 during which they seized greater than $21 million was inspiration for the film, which opens with the textual content that it was “inspired by true events.” Smith and Santana aren’t named within the film. The lawsuit says “the film’s use of unique, non-generic details of the June 29, 2016, investigation, combined with its Miami-Dade setting and portrayal of a narcotics team, creates a reasonable inference that the officers depicted are Plaintiffs.”
Within the film, Affleck and Damon’s regulation enforcement characters bend the principles equivalent to in a single scene the place Affleck’s character kills a DEA agent. Per EW: “The plaintiffs’ attorneys allege that the defendants responded to their inquiry after the film was released in January 2026 by saying that the ‘concerns are unfounded because the film did not expressly name Sergeant Smith and there was no implication that the Plaintiffs engaged in any misconduct in the film.’”
Legal professionals for Smith and Santana are asking for “a public retraction and correction,” together with “the addition of a prominent disclaimer” to the film. The 2 officers are searching for “compensatory damages, punitive damages and attorney fees,” per Leisure Weekly.
