Streaming giant Netflix has lost a lawsuit brought by an Indiana woman who claimed the streamer publicly revealed that she was the daughter of disgraced fertility doctor Donald Klein, resulting in a $385,000 lawsuit. ordered to pay.
Lori Kennard will appear on the streaming service in 2022 after her name appeared in a documentary about a doctor who used his own sperm to birth 94 children with infertile patients in the 1970s and 1980s. It is said that he sued. new york post.
That documentary, our fatheruses sperm donated by medical students and residents, that a single donor is never used more than three times, and that their own sperm is used in all cases. I followed up on Klein's case, which I had been telling patients about for years.
Ms. Kennard has never publicly acknowledged that she is one of Klein's descendants, and when she was approached by Blumhouse Productions' documentary company, Real House, about appearing in a documentary about Klein, she He said he assured him that his name and face would not be published. Part of the project.
She agreed to appear in the documentary, but claims she was told her face would be blurred out in the final cut. But that didn't happen. As a result, she claimed in court that despite these assurances she appeared in the documentary without her consent and suffered “significant damage” to her reputation as a result of her medical history being made public.
She also claimed that the outing caused her mental trauma, embarrassment and distress.
The jury concluded that Kennard kept his involvement in the Klein case a family secret and never disclosed his birth information until after the documentary was released.
Dr. Klein's lies finally came to light in 2015, decades after his actions. That's when his descendants began finding each other using private DNA testing services such as 23andMe.
Investigators ultimately determined that at least 94 children of parents who used Klein's fertility services were born from Klein's sperm.
Klein was convicted in 2017 of two counts of lying to investigators, but received a suspended sentence and no prison time. However, in 2018, he was forced to surrender his medical license and was barred from practicing medicine in Indiana. However, authorities found that despite lies, deceit and moral depravity, the doctor's actions did not actually violate any medical or sterilization laws.
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