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Nearly four months after Netflix released an explosive documentary chronicling the legacy<\/a> and controversies of “America’s Next Top Model,” the show’s creator, Tyra Banks, is suing the streaming giant for false light, defamation by implication, breach of contract and false endorsement.<\/p>\n

According to the lawsuit filed on June 13 and obtained by Fox News Digital, Banks \u2014 who participated in “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” \u2014 accused Netflix and the documentary producers of deliberately editing her 3.5-hour interview down to 16 minutes to create the false impression that she knowingly concealed what a former contestant has since characterized as a sexual assault that occurred during the filming of “ANTM.”<\/p>\n

“Tyra Banks participated in the Netflix documentary series<\/a> ‘America’s Next Top Model’ because she believed viewers deserved a candid conversation about the show’s legacy\u2014its successes and its shortcomings,” the lawsuit states. “There are aspects of the show for which Ms. Banks takes accountability and she wanted ‘ANTM’ viewers to hear that from her directly.”<\/p>\n

“Going into her interview, Ms. Banks did not limit the ‘ANTM’ topics the interviewer could ask,” the lawsuit continues. “During a three-and-a-half-hour interview, Ms. Banks answered questions about the show’s groundbreaking history, including criticism of decisions she would approach differently today.”<\/p>\n

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Banks says the Netflix series was sold to her as a “documentary series” that would chronicle “ANTM,” but says footage was “stripped of context and\u00a0reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she\u00a0actually expressed.”<\/p>\n

“Worse, the false narrative the producers constructed\u2014through selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage\u2014included that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant\u2019s trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked,” the suit stated. “That narrative about Ms. Banks is a complete fabrication\u2014one that Netflix streamed to a global audience of millions.”<\/p>\n

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The suit highlights one “egregious example of the producers\u2019 manipulation to create a false narrative,” involving former contestant Shandi Sullivan.<\/p>\n

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“One of the areas of interest about \u2018ANTM\u2019 over the last twenty years has been about an evening during which Ms. Sullivan was intoxicated, had intercourse with a man in Milan, and quickly confessed her infidelity to her longtime boyfriend,” the suit reads. “On the Netflix Series, Ms. Sullivan is shown describing the event as an assault\u2014something Ms. Banks had never heard before and was not told during her interview. Having withheld that information, Ms. Loushy asks Ms. Banks: \u2018You remember the story with Shandi?\u2019 The episode shows Ms. Banks glance upward, say \u2018um,\u2019 and then the screen cuts to black. The implication is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot even remember the story of the woman who was assaulted on her show.”<\/p>\n

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Banks’ lawyers claim the “implication is false.”<\/p>\n

“Ms. Banks remembers Ms. Sullivan well. She stood out as a remarkable young woman and talented aspiring model. Ms. Banks also remembers the encounter in Milan as a matter of regret over infidelity. As far as she knew at the time, that was how everyone involved understood it\u2014not as a sexual assault. Before it aired, no one involved in making or clearing the episode\u2014not the producers, the network executives that oversaw the show, or the network\u2019s standards-and-practices reviewers\u2014told her that anyone regarded it as a sexual assault.”<\/p>\n

“Second, Ms. Banks goes on to say: ‘I do remember her story.’ That response was cut off from the end.”<\/p>\n

Banks, who is requesting a jury trial<\/a>, is asking for an “appropriate” amount of punitive damages.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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