In “The Tell,” Griffin, a venture capitalist and memoirist, recounts being sexually abused as a child by a teacher at her middle school in Texas.
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June 18, 2026, 9:11 AM EDT
By The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Author Amy Griffin sued a former classmate for defamation on Monday, saying the woman’s statements in a New York Times story and a subsequent lawsuit alleging Griffin appropriated her stories of sexual abuse for her bestselling 2025 memoir “The Tell” are false in “every element.”
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The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Nevada, alleges the former classmate falsely portrayed Griffin as "a fraud and a thief" in…
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