Tyra Banks sues Netflix over America’s Next Top Model documentary, alleging defamation

Lawsuit claims interviews were manipulated to support false narrative that she allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted

Tyra Banks has filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix and the directors of its docuseries Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model, alleging that the producers stripped down hours of interview footage to construct a false narrative.

In the lawsuit filed on Saturday in Los Angeles federal court, the model who created and hosted reality series America’s Next Top Model said she had been interviewed for three and a half hours, during which she took responsibility for some of the show’s controversial decisions. Those interviews were edited down to 16 minutes and manipulated “to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed”, the lawsuit claims.
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