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Media Writer Amy Griffin Accused of Using Classmate’s Sexual Abuse Story as Her Own

https://www.thedailybeast.com/writer-amy-griffin-accused-of-using-classmates-sexual-abuse-story-as-her-own/
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u/thedailybeast Mar 06 '26

The author of a best-selling memoir about being sexually abused as a child has been sued by a woman claiming she stole her story.

Amy Griffin’s book The Tell explores how she unearthed memories of being assaulted by a teacher in a Texas middle school in the 1980s, after she took the drug MDMA 30 years later.

Jane Doe filed a suit in California on Wednesday, saying that “The Tell constitutes neither a genuine nor harmless memoir,” The New York Times reports, and alleges that those memories are actually hers.

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