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The movie tells the loosely fictionalized story of strippers, led by Lopez's Ramona, who go rogue after the 2008 financial crisis. The strippers con wealthy clients, teasing and drugging them and stealing thousands of dollars the men are unlikely to miss the next morning.
Barbash told TMZ in September that Lopez never consulted with her about how to play the Ramona character.
In the suit, TMZ said, Barbash says a scene that shows Ramona "using and manufacturing illegal substances in her home where she lived with her child" is untrue and offensive.
Barbash reportedly is asking for 20 million dollars in punitive damages and 20 million dollars in compensatory - and wants the company to turn over every copy of the movie, which made 157 million dollars worldwide.
Nuyorican Productions executives and Lopez's legal representatives did not immediately respond to The Times' requests for comment.
Lopez told The Times in September that the strippers in the story were simply women who wanted to have control over their own destinies.
"But their focus on money, especially my character Ramona's, sent them down a slippery slope," Lopez said. "Did she end up being any different than the powerful people she was trying to hustle? That's for the audience to decide."
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