The estate of the ex-husband of country music legend Tammy Wynette filed a lawsuit against Showtime in a Delaware court recently.

Variety reports the lawsuit, filed by the estate for George Richey, is a result of what was deemed as a misrepresentation of Richie as “villainous” in the network’s “George and Tammy” miniseries.

Richey was Wynette’s fifth and final husband before her death in 1998 at the age of 55.

The 2022 release of “George & Tammy,” the lawsuit contends,” represented the network’s “tortious interference” in a 2015 settlement agreement the estate had made not to defame or disparage Richey, who was played by Steve Zahn in the series.

The lawsuit, per the report, claims Richey was an issue in the love story of Wynette and Jones. In addition, it points out Showtime violated a non-disparagement agreement it signed with the couple’s daughter, Georgette Jones.

Showtime’s statement said the network saw “no plausible basis for any claim against Showtime.”

Richey, per the report, was depicted as a “devious husband who abused Wynette, facilitated and encouraged Wynette’s addiction to prescription painkillers, and engaged in financial and managerial manipulation of Wynette.”

The Richey estate is seeking Showtime and Paramount “withdraw” the miniseries from distribution and “be held responsible for restitution in an amount to be determined in a trial.”

Mark Heim is a reporter for The Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Mark_Heim. He can be heard on “The Opening Kickoff” on WNSP-FM 105.5 FM in Mobile or on the free Sound of Mobile App from 6 to 9 a.m. daily.