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Tyra Banks Sues Netflix for Defamation Over 'America's Next Top Model' Docuseries Editing

Complex | Music, Sneakers, Pop Culture, News & Shows·Trey Alston·3 months ago
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Tyra Banks is taking Netflix to court for a defamation lawsuit, tied to her participation in the Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model docuseries. Filed on Friday (July 12), the suit names Netflix, EverWonder Studio, Wise Child Studio, and directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan as defendants. At the core of Banks' complaint is the fact that Netflix only used 16 minutes of her almost four-hour interview for the docuseries, which she argues is "stripped of context and reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative." The complaint charges the production used "selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage." The resulting portrait, Banks alleges, was that she "knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant's trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked." Her filing calls that characterization " a complete fabrication ." Banks also brought up ANTM contestant Shandi Sullivan's alleged…

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