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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Now she is being sued. This story is so strange.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/nyregion/amy-griffin-the-tell-lawsuit.html[/url]

[quote]Amy Griffin, a best-selling memoirist, was sued on Wednesday by a former classmate who contends that Ms. Griffin’s story of being sexually abused — as she described in her book, “The Tell” — was based on assaults the classmate herself suffered at their Texas middle school in the 1980s.

The classmate, identified in court papers as Jane Doe, filed the lawsuit in California, accusing Ms. Griffin of invasion of privacy, negligence and infliction of emotional distress, among other claims. The suit also names Sam Lansky, a ghostwriter who worked on “The Tell,” as well as Penguin Random House and The Dial Press, which published the book, as defendants.[/quote]
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The story isn’t strange. As harsh and biting and conservative as she may be, the commentator Maureen Callahan called this exactly.

Amy Griffin wanted to be Important apart from her VC spouse. She was not fulfilled by her “perfect” life and surface-level friendships. Her husband put money into MDMA and wanted to use and “explore” bondage with her, as likely as not to continue “exploration” he’d already done with a girlfriend or pro. It really freaked her out.

She took the pill and in a somewhat hallucinogenic state, presented the hideous abuse of a poorer Amarillo girl as what happened to her, and tried to write a book proposal about it. She failed at that and hired as a ghost the West Coast editor of a major publication.

She stole trauma from an actual traumatized woman and she will pay her off to make this go away. Any of her fancy friends still hanging with her are amoral. This entire fiasco is the rare total exposure of a rich person’s total soulless narcissism. [/quote]

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