Carrie Goldberg


Carrie A. Goldberg is an American attorney who specializes in sexual privacy violations, particularly revenge porn and online abuse. She represents Lucia Evans and Paz de la Huerta, alleged victims of the film producer Harvey Weinstein. She is based in Brooklyn, New York City.

Early life and education

Goldberg grew up in Aberdeen, Washington. She received a B.A. degree from Vassar College in 1999 and a J.D. degree from Brooklyn Law School.

Career

Before setting up her firm, she worked as the Director of Legal Services with the Vera Institute of Justice and as a case manager for victims of the Holocaust.
She says her experience of being harassed online by a former partner was her motivation to start her law firm.
Her work against revenge porn is best known but her career as an attorney is broader, including work against sexual extortion, online harassment, and cyberstalking, as well as representing victims of sexual assault. She has criticised New York City Department of Education for failing to protect and to provide care for female African-American students who were sexually assaulted at school In 2015 she obtained a settlement of $950,000 for a teenage client whose report of sexual assault was badly mishandled by her school's administration.
Goldberg also represents Matthew Herrick who is suing the gay dating app Grindr for failing to stop a user from sending sexually aggressive men to his home and job under the assumption that they were going to have violent sex.
She is a board member of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative, a non-profit that tries to raise awareness of life-altering consequences of revenge porn. In 2017, the Electronic Privacy Information Center awarded her a Privacy Champion award.
In 2017, Sony Television announced that it was developing a dramatic television series based on Goldberg's life and work.
Her book, Nobody's Victim: Fighting Psychos, Stalkers, Pervs, and Trolls, was published by Plume in August 2019.