Amy Griffin, author of the NYT-bestselling memoir The Tell, has filed an Anti-SLAPP motion to strike down the lawsuit brought against her in California Superior Court by a former classmate, and now has countersued her accuser for defamation in the US District Court of Nevada. In March, a plaintiff filing as “Jane Doe” sued Griffin for invasion of privacy, claiming negligence, infliction of emotional distress, and more, and stating Griffin used details of the plaintiff’s own sexual assaults in the book. The suit named the Griffin’s collaborator, Sam Lansky, as well as the book’s publisher and imprint, Penguin Random House and […]
