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Tyra Banks Sues Netflix for Defamation Following ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Documentary

June 13, 2026:

Tyra Banks Sues Netflix for Defamation Following ‘America’s Next Top Model’ Documentary

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Netflix Defamed Me with ‘ANTM’ Doc!

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Tyra Banks ain’t just serving looks … she just filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix following her participation in their “Reality Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model” docuseries.

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 “to support a false and defamatory narrative.”

The lawsuit accuses producers of constructing a false narrative about Tyra through “selective editing, deliberate omission, and surgical manipulation of continuous footage — including 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.”

ICYMI, Cycle 2 contestant Shandi Sullivan accused the “America’s Next Top Model” 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’s storyline but explained, “It’s a little difficult for me to talk about production because that’s not my territory.”

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, “The implication is devastating and deliberate: that Tyra Banks cannot even remember the story of the woman who was assaulted on her show.”

TMZ has reached out to Netflix for comment … so far, no word back.

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