Former Fox News employee Laurie Luhn is threatening Showtime with legal action over her portrayal in an upcoming miniseries about former Fox Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes.

Luhn's attorney, Larry Klayman, sent an email to multiple lawyers for Showtime and Blumhouse Television voicing concerns that the series might portray Luhn as a "pimp" for Ailes, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

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The outlet reported Wednesday that Klayman wrote in the Nov. 12 email that Luhn was one of Ailes's alleged victims. The lawyer added that, at the time, Luhn's accusations of misconduct against Ailes were rebuffed by network executives, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Ailes, who died last year, was accused by several women at the network of sexual misconduct before his ouster in 2016.

Klayman, the founder of Judicial Watch, said Luhn should be retained as a consultant on the show by Showtime, Blumhouse Television or producer Jason Blum to ensure that she is portrayed accurately in the series, the outlet reported.

"There is a probability, given previous false and misleading representations from and by one of the principal writers Gabe Sherman, concerning Ms. Luhn, including but hardly limited to his writing that Ms. Luhn brought Mr. Ailes women (i.e. in effect was his pimp), and thus you and Showtime/CBS are on notice that its mini-series must not again defame my client," Klayman reportedly wrote in the email.

The eight-episode miniseries, titled "The Loudest Voice in the Room," is based on the book of the same name by Gabriel Sherman. In a 2016 article in New York magazine, Sherman wrote that Luhn "denied ever setting Ailes up with her staff for explicitly sexual purposes, but she did send them in for private meetings with him where she knew they could be exposed to sexual harassment."

Luhn said in the New York magazine article that she was "psychologically tortured" by Ailes for more than two decades, eventually leading her to have a series of mental breakdowns.

Academy Award–winner Russell Crowe will play Ailes in his first feature role in television. Naomi Watts will play Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host whose sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes in July 2016 led to his ouster.