Tyra Banks is taking Netflix to court

Tyra Banks is suing Netflix. In a 65-page lawsuit filed on Saturday, her attorneys say the streaming service falsely portrayed her in the three-part docuseries "Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model," which was released in February. The series traced the show's rise and included interviews with Banks and collaborators such as creative director Jay Manuel and runway coach J.

Alexander, plus at least 10 contestants. Her team alleges the producers used only about sixteen minutes of the hours of answers she provided after a three-and-a-half-hour interview, arguing that the footage was "stripped of context and reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed." They say the documentary relied on "selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage." One central complaint concerns season-two contestant Shandi Sullivan, who told producers she had viewed an on-set incident as sexual assault.

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