{"id":2412603,"date":"2026-05-12T02:22:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2412603"},"modified":"2026-05-12T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T02:22:16","slug":"ben-affleck-and-matt-damon-sued-for-making-the-rip-too-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/ben-affleck-and-matt-damon-sued-for-making-the-rip-too-real\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck And Matt Damon Sued For Making &#8216;The Rip&#8217; Too Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div class=\"cli cli-embed cli-embed--full-width js-no-inject\">\n<div class=\"js-react-hydrator\" style=\"display:contents\" data-component-name=\"YouTube\" data-component-id=\"9636\" data-component-props=\"{&quot;itemType&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;isLiveblogEmbed&quot;:false,&quot;index&quot;:0,&quot;contentIndexByType&quot;:1,&quot;contentListType&quot;:&quot;embed&quot;,&quot;code&quot;:&quot;&lt;div style=\\&quot;left: 0; width: 100%; height: 0; position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%;\\&quot;&gt;&lt;iframe src=\\&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qAcMH8Ed3Io?rel=0&amp;enablejsapi=1\\&quot; style=\\&quot;top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; position: absolute; border: 0;\\&quot; allowfullscreen scrolling=\\&quot;no\\&quot; allow=\\&quot;accelerometer *; clipboard-write *; encrypted-media *; gyroscope *; picture-in-picture *; web-share *;\\&quot; referrerpolicy=\\&quot;strict-origin\\&quot; id=\\&quot;youtube-embed-qAcMH8Ed3Io-3409\\&quot;&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;video&quot;,&quot;meta&quot;:{&quot;author&quot;:&quot;CBS Mornings&quot;,&quot;author_url&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC-SJ6nODDmufqBzPBwCvYvQ&quot;,&quot;cache_age&quot;:86400,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;Inspired by a true story, Netflix's \\&quot;The Rip,\\&quot; starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, follows two Miami-Dade police officers as they discover more than $20 million of cartel cash during a drug raid and reveals corruption within the department. 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href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rip-review-matt-damon-ben-affleck-b23f62bc18025321a102626ad263888b\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"\u201cThe Rip\u201d\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a0249e9e4b088000126babc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/rip-review-matt-damon-ben-affleck-b23f62bc18025321a102626ad263888b\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"2\">\u201cThe Rip\u201d<\/a> used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers\u2019 personal and professional reputations, according to a defamation lawsuit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Jason Smith and Jonathan Santana, sergeants in the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, filed the lawsuit in Miami federal court earlier this month against <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ben-affleck-matt-damon-air-movie-29d9bfdde9a3f2421b74360e204e5883\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Artists Equity\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a0249e9e4b088000126babc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ben-affleck-matt-damon-air-movie-29d9bfdde9a3f2421b74360e204e5883\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"3\">Artists Equity<\/a>, a film production company owned by Affleck and Damon. Court filings don\u2019t say how much the officers are suing for, but the civil complaint says they\u2019re seeking compensatory damages, punitive damages and attorney fees, as well as a public retraction and correction.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThe Rip\u201d features Affleck and Damon as South Florida police officers who find millions of dollars inside a house. Parts of the movie were inspired by a real 2016 case, where police found over $21 million linked to a suspected marijuana trafficker in a Miami Lakes home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>An attorney for Artists Equity declined to comment when reached Monday by The Associated Press. But in a March 19 response to the plaintiffs\u2019 demand letter, Leita Walker, an attorney for Artists Equity, wrote that the film does not purport to tell the true story of that incident or portray real people, which had been stated by a disclaimer in the film\u2019s credits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Although Smith and Santana aren\u2019t named in the film, the lawsuit claims that Santana was serving as the lead detective assigned to the real case, and Smith was the sergeant who supervised the investigative team. The film\u2019s inclusion of real details about the case gives the impression that the characters are based on the plaintiffs, the suit said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>And this, the lawsuit claims, has given friends, family members and colleagues the impression that the plaintiffs committed the criminal acts that appear in the film, which include (SPOILER ALERT) conspiring to steal seized drug money, murdering a supervising officer, communicating with cartel members, committing arson in a residential neighborhood, endangering the lives of civilians, repeatedly violating core law-enforcement protocols and executing a federal agent rather than making an arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>Walker wrote in March that the plaintiffs haven\u2019t even identified which particular character is supposed to be based on Smith or Santana, so even if \u201cThe Rip\u201d was actually about a real-life narcotics team, there\u2019s no way to connect any of the characters to the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"primary-cli cli cli-text \">\n<p>\u201cThe Rip,\u201d directed by Joe Carnahan, debuted in January on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entertainment\/topic\/netflix\">Netflix<\/a>. It\u2019s currently rated 78% Fresh on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the_rip\" role=\"link\" class=\" js-entry-link cet-external-link\" data-vars-item-name=\"Rotten Tomatoes\" data-vars-item-type=\"text\" data-vars-unit-name=\"6a0249e9e4b088000126babc\" data-vars-unit-type=\"buzz_body\" data-vars-target-content-id=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/the_rip\" data-vars-target-content-type=\"url\" data-vars-type=\"web_external_link\" data-vars-subunit-name=\"article_body\" data-vars-subunit-type=\"component\" data-vars-position-in-subunit=\"4\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (AP) \u2014 Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon \u2018s recent action thriller \u201cThe Rip\u201d used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers\u2019 personal and professional reputations, according to a defamation lawsuit. 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