{"id":734713,"date":"2026-06-13T18:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734713\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T18:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T18:48:10","slug":"tyra-banks-sues-netflix-for-defamation-following-americas-next-top-model-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/734713\/","title":{"rendered":"Tyra Banks Sues Netflix for Defamation Following &#8216;America\u2019s Next Top Model&#8217; Documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                          Tyra Banks<br \/>\n                          Netflix Defamed Me with &#8216;ANTM&#8217; Doc!<\/p>\n<p>\n                                                                        Published<br \/>\n                              June 13, 2026<br \/>\n                            8:28 AM PDT<br \/>\n                                                                      |<br \/>\n                                                                Updated<br \/>\n                                  June 13, 2026<br \/>\n                                10:42 AM PDT\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>                  <a class=\"js-click-image js-track-link image-lightbox-preview\" data-node-ref=\"tmz:image-asset:image_jpg_20260613_54684e949b7c421a970483db0736412c\" data-container-ref=\"tmz:article:140626de-c22b-466e-901b-127cfb40bc25\" data-context=\"{&quot;section&quot;:&quot;permalink&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;image&quot;}\"><\/p>\n<p>                          <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/54684e949b7c421a970483db0736412c_md.jpg\" alt=\"main-tyra-banks-getty-1\" width=\"728\" height=\"546\" class=\"img-fluid image-block__img-fluid img-aspect-auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/tyra-banks\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tyra Banks<\/a> ain&#8217;t just serving looks &#8230; she just filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix following her participation in their &#8220;Reality Check: Inside America&#8217;s Next Top Model&#8221; docuseries.<\/p>\n<p>The legal docs, filed Saturday and obtained by TMZ, allege Netflix only used 16 minutes from her over 3-hour interview with them and manipulated it &#8220;to support a false and defamatory narrative.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit accuses producers of constructing a false narrative about Tyra through &#8220;selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage &#8212; including that Ms. Banks knowingly allowed a contestant to be sexually assaulted on her show, exploited that contestant&#8217;s trauma for ratings, and then could not even remember it when asked.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ICYMI, Cycle 2 contestant Shandi Sullivan accused the &#8220;America&#8217;s Next Top Model&#8221; production team of failing to protect her from a sexual assault by a guest on the show, and then ignoring the assault and molding it into a humiliating infidelity storyline. During the doc, Tyra said she remembered Shandi&#8217;s storyline but explained, &#8220;It&#8217;s a little difficult for me to talk about production because that&#8217;s not my territory.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But in the lawsuit, Tyra argues she had no idea Shandi was participating in the docuseries and that she labeled her experience as a sexual assault. The lawsuit slams, &#8220;The implication is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot even remember the story of the woman who was assaulted on her show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Banks also says she didn&#8217;t get access to the completed docuseries until Feb. 15, 2026 &#8212; just one day before it premiered on Netflix. By that point, she claims trailers, promotional materials, and press outreach were already underway.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the documentary itself, Banks is also taking issue with a soundtrack tied to the project. She alleges Netflix used her image on the cover art without authorization, creating the false impression she endorsed the release<\/p>\n<p>We reached out to Netflix &#8230; and the company declined to comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tyra Banks Netflix Defamed Me with &#8216;ANTM&#8217; Doc! 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