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Even those who celebrate Tyra Banks often see her as an almost cartoonishly villainous figure.
Her own on-screen behavior and antics have reinforced this notion.
But Tyra says that the Netflix doc that came out earlier this year went too far, using dishonest editing.
She’s suing for defamation and more, saying that her words were spliced to make her look evil to audiences.
She’s suing Netflix
On Saturday, June 13, Tyra filed a defamation lawsuit against Netflix over her portrayal on the 3-part Real Check: Inside America’s Next Top Model docuseries from February.
Unlike some similar documentaries, Tyra actually participated — even if she avoided some topics, like her erstwhile friendship with Jay Manuel.
In her legal filing, which People obtained, she alleges that the docuseries was maliciously edited to reinforce a false narrative against her.
Tyra is seeking a jury trial to determine “appropriate” compensation.
“[Tyra] did share her side. Her answers were very honest,” the legal filing claims. “But the story that viewers heard was the deceptive story producers chose to tell.”
“Tyra Banks participated in the Netflix documentary series [on] America’s Next Top Model (‘ANTM’),” the filing explained.
The explanation continued: “Because she believed viewers deserved a candid conversation about the show’s legacy — its successes and its shortcomings.”
Tyra’s team added: “There are aspects of the show for which Ms. Banks takes accountability and she wanted ANTM viewers to hear that from her directly.”
Pursuant to this goal, the filing says that she “did not limit the ANTM topics the interviewer could ask.”
Even so, the filing alleges that only 16 minutes of Tyra’s lengthy interview made it into the final docuseries.
We allegedly didn’t see part of her responses to really pivotal topics
Tyra believes that the clips what the docuseries did include were “stripped of context and reassembled to support a false and defamatory narrative unrelated to what she actually expressed.”
A big issue in the filing is that the doc was marketed as a documentary, with the filing arguing that “the genre matters.”
“Viewers of a documentary do not expect manufactured drama or constructed narratives,” the filing notes. “They expect facts.”
Tyra’s team argues: “Because they were promised a documentary, that is exactly how viewers interacted with the Netflix Series.”
The filing highlights specific moments from interviews — moments that Netflix’s editors allegedly spliced out to rob other statements of context, and to make Tyra appear more villainous.
Among the moments that Tyra alleges were robbed of vital context were the sexual assault of Shandi Sullivan and Miss J’s stroke and recovery.
Her lawsuit isn’t only about damages.
Tyra is suing for “loss of future business opportunities, loss of business income, other compounding losses as will be shown at trial.”
She also wants compensation for being part of the series given the “significant mental anguish” that she has experienced in the aftermath.
This sounds like a complex legal matter. We don’t know which way a jury might rule. There’s a non-zero chance that this ends with an out of court settlement of some kind. We’ll certainly be paying attention as this lawsuit unfolds.
Tyra Banks Sues Netflix: Their Doc Made Me Look EVIL! was originally published on The Hollywood Gossip.
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The fourth day of the 2026 FIFA World Cup delivered plenty of goals, a historic German blowout, and late-game heroics that shattered records and unbeaten streaks alike. From Amad Diallo’s dramatic 90th-minute winner to Japan fighting back from behind twice to snatch a point, the drama kept going right until the final whistle. Here is everything you might have missed from Day 4 of the World Cup: Germany vs. Curaçao Netherlands vs. Japan Ivory Coast vs. Ecuador Sweden vs. Tunisia BEST OF THE DAY Save Of The Day With all due respect to Ivory Coast goalkeeper Yahia Fofana, who was the only player that managed to keep a clean sheet on Sunday, the crossbar was called into action more than him against Ecuador. While Fofana only recorded one save against Ecuador in the 68th minute, the crossbar denied Ecuador from scoring not once, but twice! Congratulations on this prestigious honor, crossbar. Assist Of The Day Koki Ogawa might have been going for goal when he struck the ball in the 88th minute of Japan’s thrilling catchup with the Netherlands on Sunday, but he caught his teammate Daichi Kamada’s head instead. Luckily for him, he struck it hard enough to where it found the back of the net in the end, he just didn’t get credit for it. Hopefully an assist is just as meaningful for him — this one should be. Goal Of The Day There were 19 goals scored on the fourth day of the 2026 FIFA World Cup — the first one of the day is our Goal of the Day. Germany midfielder Felix Nmecha started the play by passing the ball to Florian Wirtz, and Wirtz gave it right back to a darting Nmecha, who struck it well to the far right post, well outside the reach of Curaçao goalkeeper Eloy Room. Moment Of The Day Entering the fourth day of the World Cup, everyone had the matchup between the Netherlands and Japan circled on their calendars. Thankfully, it lived up to the hype and then some. While there was no winner, it had everything else: star power, drama, great energy and four goals, including an 88th-minute match-winner from Daichi Kamada. And with Sweden’s dominant win over Tunisia, Group F is wide open.Latest Sports News from FOX Sports
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New Zealand’s diplomatic breakaway
LOS ANGELES — In many World Cup host cities, competing teams also find themselves jostling for soft-power supremacy around their matches. But before its first match tomorrow in Los Angeles, New Zealand has had the diplomatic landscape all to itself.
New Zealand is scheduled to face Iran, which has not had formal diplomatic relations with the United States since 1980. Even as President Donald Trump claims an end to the countries’ monthslong war is at hand, Iran will be competing in the World Cup under severe travel restrictions. The team has been forced from its original Tucson training camp to Tijuana, and is being forced to effectively commute to its matches in the U.S. without a full government delegation.
That has left New Zealand alone in pressing its off-field agenda in Los Angeles. On Sunday evening, New Zealand consul-general Katja Ackerley opened her Brentwood mansion to a “New Zealand on the World Stage” networking reception sponsored by the government agencies overseeing the country’s trade, sport and foreign-investment portfolios.
“It’s all about soft power, it’s all about person-to-person,” said Peter Miskimmin, the government’s head of sports diplomacy. “We are building relations through sport rather than bringing up arms against one another.”
The country’s Los Angeles diplomatic outpost typically focuses on promoting exports of wine and lamb, expediting visas for Hollywood personnel traveling for location shoots and addressing the perpetual crisis of “Kiwis losing their passports in Las Vegas,” as one previous inhabitant of the office put it.
A delegation of New Zealand officials was preparing for their first World Cup appearance since 2010 uncertain whether any of their opposite numbers from Iran would attend, and how that might affect the standard match-day pageantry.
“This is our first World Cup in 16 years so we can’t tell what’s different,” said James Wear, a general manager of the New Zealand Football Association. “We don’t have anything to compare.”
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Around a hundred Samurai Blue superfans crowded the Old Ambassador’s Residence at the Japanese embassy in Washington, on Sunday for a watch party marking its World Cup opener against the Netherlands.
The supporters — a motley group including erstwhile English teachers in Japan, state department workers and embassy staffers — lounged around a projector set in the building’s front room, plates piled high with nigiri. Drinking Kirin Ichiban lager and Asahi Super Dry, they winced when the Dutch team had the ball in the opposing third and burst into cheers and sang “Vamos Nippon” when Daichi Kamada’s header tied the game in the 89th minute.
“The World Cup itself is a competition,” said Masatsugu Odaira, the embassy’s minister of public affairs, at the watch party. “But from the perspective of policy and diplomacy, it’s a very good chance to connect people across borders.”
At the event, POLITICO spoke to soccer fans who are already excited about Japan’s growing diplomatic footprint and soft power projection. And they hope the World Cup will buoy that cultural momentum, stimulating tourism — one of the nation’s most lucrative sectors — and drawing eyes to Japan.
The World Cup is “just a visceral way to connect people who have not yet had the opportunity to travel to Japan to be swept up in the enthusiasm of an international competition,” said Andrew Wylegala, president of the National Association of Japan-America Societies.
Japan is already “at the top of its game” in terms of soft power projection, Wylegala added — and “soccer now fits in with that.”
Embassy staff wore pink shirts with the American and Japanese flags on the back. “Together We Bloom,” they read.
The end result, a 2-2 draw against the Dutch, the world’s eighth ranked international side, only added to their enthusiasm.
The women’s team has a far more prolific record. Fans still hark back to their 2011 World Cup final victory over the U.S., months after a massive earthquake and tsunami slammed the country.
But the men’s team has won just seven World Cup games in its history. Japan’s best-ever finish: The round of 16, where they’ve fallen four separate times.
But there’s hope that, this year, the underdogs could pull off an upset. From Ajax’s Takehiro Tomiyasu to Kamada, a Crystal Palace midfielder, the Samurai Blue have more than enough talent to compete with the sport’s upper crust.
Odaira’s hope for this year? “Oh, becoming a champion,” he said.
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