Posted on 10/18/2010 7:45:17 AM PDT by MissTed
A Georgia woman is suing Tyra Banks for $3 million after she said her 15-year-old daughter appeared without her permission on an episode of Banks’ talk show about teen sex addicts.
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.
Warner Bros. Television Group spokesman Scott Rowe said Sunday that the company had no comment. Banks’ publicist, agent and lawyer did not immediately return calls Sunday seeking comment.
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.
Interstate transport of a minor
wow
throw Tyra in prison
PLEASE!! I can’t stand her. lol.
Tyra Banks has a tv show? Who knew.
Besides, all teens are sex addicts.
On the other hand, she could be filing kidnapping charges. As a minor, the girl could not consent to go with them, and they sent a plane for her, so they went across state lines.
Child abduction is pretty serious business. They might just well be happy the woman is doing nothing more than taking some money from them.
Too bad they weren’t when I was a teenager.
Without reading the article, based on your comment, didn’t mom notice her to be gone?
Every person evolved can be prosecuted.
She might be...you know she had to watch that show and that's worth at least $2million to be force to watch that crap. The other million may be a stretch saying her whore daughter now has a bad reputation.
Except a democrat prosecutor and other high profile democrats.
This is what Jerry Lee Lewis was charged with when He married His 13 year old 2nd cousin, IIRC.
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This doesn’t sound right. Didn’t the mother notice her 15 year old was missing??? How does your child disappear and appear on television while you remain in la la land? There is more to this story, of course.
The article says she reported the teen’s absence to the police.
Yes, she noticed her daughter was gone.
well take out the 30 percent attorneys make...I think 3 million is cheap in some ways—this girl is going to have this follow her for the rest of her life; it is on tape forever. It will follow her family too.
I am glad someone is going to “stick-it” to one of these lowest of the bottom-feeding tv shows; I wish they were all off the air as they are just a parade for the dysfunctional...
OK, I will climb off my soap box now :)
“Interstate transport of a minor”
Transporting gulls over State lions for Immortal porpoises......
Tyra’s people acted Stupidly and should pay!
Actually, the people involved is this show should be charged with kidnapping. But since that is highly unlikely, I think $3M is probably not enough.
If this is true, Tyra Banks should do jail time. Insanity.
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