article_snippet.sent: Christina Ricci is playing Lizzie Borden in a Lifetime miniseries, The Lizzie Borden Chronicles, that began on Sunday .
article_snippet.sent: The new show, which stars Christina Ricci, is 'an intense and fictionalized account of actual events and people surrounding Lizzie's life after Lizzie controversial acquittal of the horrific double murder of Lizzie father and stepmother in 1892', according to Lifetime, .
article_snippet.sent: Christina Ricci is an 'exonerated figure' who 'lives a life awash in newfound celebrity filled with scandalous love affairs'.