Tyra Banks is suing Netflix, alleging that 'Reality Check' footage of her was manipulated and edited to construct a 'false narrative' about her.
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In a lawsuit filed in federal court in California today, the supermodel is suing Netflix, 89 Blocks Holdings, EverWonder Studio, Netflix Music and co-directors Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan for false light, defamation by implication, breach of contract and false endorsement. Wanda Sykes Reveals Why She Turned Down Kevin Hart's Netflix Roast & What Bill Maher Had To Say About Her Golden Globes JokeDOJ Gives Thumbs Up To Paramount's $111B WBD Acquisition; Par Touts "Pro-Competitive" Merger As States Ponder Next Movean interview totaling three-and-a-half hours, only to have it whittled down to 16 minutes and “stripped of context and reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed.
” The suit states Banks took “accountability” for the show’s toxic on-set environment but those moments “ended up on the cutting room floor. ”“Worse, the false narrative the producers constructed—through selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage—included that Ms. Banks 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,” the suit reads.
“That narrative about Ms. Banks is a complete fabrication—one that Netflix streamed to a global audience of millions. ”The documentary series, which premiered Feb. 16, also featured sit-down interviews with producer Ken Mok and leading judges Jay Manuel, J. Alexander and Nigel Barker, as well as former contestants and winners — like Whitney Thompson, Giselle Samson, Shannon Stewart, Shandi Sullivan, Dani Evans, and Keenyah Hill.
It debuted towith 14.2M views in its first week, becoming a runway success and generating headlines and online discourse. In particular, the lawsuit highlights one “egregious example” of manipulated footage, regarding Sullivan’s experience of sexual assault as a contestant on“One of the areas of interest about ANTM 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 lawsuit explains.
“On the Netflix Series, Ms. Sullivan is shown describing the event as an assault—something Ms. Banks had never heard before and. Having withheld that information, Ms. Loushy asks Ms. Banks: ‘You remember the story with Shandi? ’ The episode shows Ms. Banks glance upward, say ‘um,’ 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.
” “But that was false,” the suit continues.
“The full footage of Ms. Banks’ interview reveals two things that the producers cut out and did not show viewers in Episode 1: before the upward glance, Ms. Banks nods—affirmatively, unmistakably—immediately says, ‘I do remember her story. ’ By carving the nod out of the middle of the sequence and cutting off Ms. Banks’ comment at the end, the producers ensured that viewers would see only the lie and not the truth.
” As a result of alleged “loss of future business opportunities, loss of business income, other compounding losses,” “severe reputational harm” and “significant mental anguish,” Banks is requesting a jury trial to decide “appropriate” compensation for general and special damages. — which first premiered on the now-defunct UPN, before shifting to its successor The CW and even later VH1 — would draw 100 million global viewers at its peak.
It spanned 24 seasons, or cycles, totaling over 300 episodes from 2003 through 2016 . I said some dumb shit. But I refuse to have my legacy be about some stuff linked together on the internet when there were 24 cycles of changing the world. And I am so excited that I, and so many of us, have opened that door for others to follow.
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