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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Miami sheriff’s deputies sue Ben Affleck and Matt Damon over The Rip movie

A scene from a movie with two male cops
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck in The Rip. Photograph: Warrick Page/Netflix

Two Miami sheriff’s deputies have filed a lawsuit against Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, claiming the Hollywood actors’ portrayal in a Netflix crime drama makes them look like “dirty cops”.

The officers, Jonathan Santana and Jason Smith, deputies with the Miami-Dade county sheriff’s office, are seeking defamation damages from the actors’ production company Artists Equity. The Rip is a dramatization of a 2016 drugs bust on a private residence in Miami Lakes in which $24m cash was recovered.

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