Tyra Banks is battling Netflix and documentary producers for unaired raw interview footage of Miss J and Jay Manuel, which she believes will prove she was defamed by selective editing. Producers are rejecting her broad requests, arguing they are not relevant to her claims.
Tyra Banks’ fight for hours of unaired footage shot for the "America’s Next Top Model" documentary is heating up ... with the producers scoffing at the supermodel’s request, TMZ has learned. According to court docs obtained by TMZ, Netflix and the documentary producers are opposing Tyra's attempt to get her hands on the unaired raw footage of her former friends Miss J and Jay Manuel that didn’t end up in the doc. Tyra believes the footage could help prove her claim that she was defamed due to producers selectively editing the interviews. The producers argue Tyra has no right to the raw interview footage, all internal communications about Tyra, all draft scripts, all story notes, and deposition testimony of filmmakers, editors, and others involved in producing or reviewing the documentary. Netflix also had issues with Tyra wanting their internal viewership data. They insist none of these items are the type of targeted discovery allowed to prove her claims, insisting her requests are way too broad ... particularly at this early stage of the litigation.
