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Tyra Banks Sued by Mother of Teen Sex Addict
Filed under: In The News, Sex, Behavior: Teens, Celeb News & Interviews
This Sept. 20, 2010 photo shows television personality Tyra Banks at the premiere of 'Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps' at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. Credit: Evan Agostini/AP
In a lawsuit filed Oct. 8 in federal court in Atlanta, Beverly McClendon claims the show contacted the teen on her cell phone after she responded to a request on the show's website seeking "sex addicts."
The girl was then picked up from her home in Georgia in a limo and flown to New York, where she was put up in a hotel, all without her mother's knowledge, the lawsuit says.
McClendon filed a missing person report with local police when she realized her daughter was gone. The teen has never been diagnosed as a sex addict, the lawsuit says. The lawsuit also names Warner Bros. Entertainment and the executive producers of the show as defendants.
McClendon says her daughter suffered damages because the 2009 show "was undoubtedly watched by sexual deviants, perverts and pedophiles." The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. It also asks the court to bar the episode from ever being aired again on television or online.
The show violated McClendon's right to privacy by putting her daughter, who was a minor, on television without McClendon's permission, the lawsuit claims.
The lawsuit also claims negligence, saying the teen was paid for her appearance but that the show didn't get permission from the labor commissioner to employ her and didn't get McClendon's permission before paying the girl to fly to New York, stay in a hotel alone and appear on the show.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
10-19-2010 @ 11:56AM
Kelly said...Alot of unanswer questions in this article! Who ever wrote and approved this need to do alot more investigation.....
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10-19-2010 @ 6:04PM
Eileen said...That is a BIG oops... Come what may the child was just that a child and permission of the parent is needed before the child's image was used. That parent has every right to be angry and to be compensated for that error. Maybe next time they will check closer.
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10-21-2010 @ 3:42PM
Lauren said...As weird as this show sounds, I have a REALLY hard time believing they'd really whisk a minor away from home WITHOUT getting parental consent. Especially in our sue-happy culture today.
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