The real-life stripper who helped inspire the film “Hustlers” starring Jennifer Lopez is suing the film studio STX, claiming filmmakers defamed her and failed to uphold her civil rights.
Samantha Barbash, one of the subjects of a viral 2015 New York Magazine piece “The Hustlers at Scores” that served as the basis for the character Lopez portrays in “Hustlers,” made good on the threat of a lawsuit against the Hollywood studio and the filmmakers, which she’s intended to file since the film debuted last September.
The film, for which Lopez garnered a Golden Globes nomination, tells the story of former strippers at a club in New York City who drugged their clients and took their credit cards.