Police Release Updated Details About Natalie Portman’s ‘Rape Threat’ Series

Natalie Portman’s upcoming Apple TV+ limited series against the so-called There are new details about the “extortion threat”. lady at the lake.

When the story began on Saturday, baltimore flagProduction sources said the show’s “cast and crew” were threatened by a group of Baltimore “drug dealers” Friday afternoon who brandished a firearm and demanded $50,000 to allow the producer to continue filming or that someone shot him, according to police sources. The “producers” of the set refused to pay.

On Sunday, that narrative evolved significantly, claiming that two men threatened the production driver before the producers, cast and crew arrived on set. “Friday afternoon, our production in Baltimore lady at the lake“Prior to the arrival of the cast and crew, at the time of the call, our production crew’s driver was confronted by two men, one of whom pointed a gun at our driver, who fled the scene,” the statement reads. Endeavor Content Study.

Now the settings seem to need tweaking.

Since then, Baltimore Police have reviewed CCTV footage and interviewed those involved. in the statement obtained by the hollywood reporterPolice say a local street clothing salesman was upset that he was not compensated for lost business on the product because he could not work while crew filmed in his place. The individual told detectives that he had spoken with a crew member and a safety manager and was awaiting paperwork to receive compensation for lost business. The seller was also arrested for drug trafficking.

The attached police report describes conflicting statements suggesting that the group was halting production, but that the threats described above were either exaggerated or inaccurate. The crew member who initially reported the incident claimed the man pointed a gun at the workers, but later “retracted his initial statement” and said the driver reported seeing a gun. “[The brandishing of the gun] It was deemed inaccurate and the victim’s memory changed during the investigation,” the report says. who was not aware of the incident.

Altogether, the detectives are “in the process of interviewing additional individuals and this remains an open and ongoing investigation”, so the details of this incident could still change.

Endeavor Content and Apple TV did not immediately comment.