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Benedict Cumberbatch reportedly could be forced to pay reparations over his family’s historical slave plantation.
The Sherlock star, 46, is often outspoken on a variety of social and political issues – and now he and his family find themselves at the centre of one.
The two-time Oscar nominee once played slave owner William Ford in the award-winning film 12 Years a Slave.
And now it appears that Barbados’ government are targeting him as part of a campaign seeking reparations from descendants of slave-owning families