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October 18, 2010 at 12:00a.m.

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Ga. mom sues Banks after teen is on show

ATLANTA

A Georgia woman is suing Tyra Banks for $3 million after she said her 15-year-old daughter appeared without her permission on an episode of Banks’ talk show about teen sex addicts.

In a lawsuit filed Oct. 8 in federal court in Atlanta, Beverly McClendon claims the show contacted the teen on her cell phone after she responded to a request on the show’s website seeking “sex addicts.” The girl was then picked up from her home in Georgia in a limo and flown to New York, where she was put up in a hotel, all without her mother’s knowledge, the lawsuit says.

McClendon filed a missing person report with local police when she realized her daughter was gone. The teen has never been diagnosed as a sex addict, the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit also names Warner Bros. Entertainment and the executive producers of the show as defendants.

The lawsuit seeks a jury trial and asks for $1 million in compensatory damages and $2 million in punitive damages. It also asks the court to bar the episode from ever being aired again on television or online.

The lawsuit also claims negligence, saying the teen was paid for her appearance but that the show didn’t get permission from the labor commissioner to employ her and didn’t get McClendon’s permission before paying the girl to fly to New York, stay in a hotel alone and appear on the show.

Jagger ‘unbearable,’ Richards says in book

LONDON

Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards describes frontman Mick Jagger as unbearable in his soon-to-be published autobiography. Richards says he and Jagger used to be friends but have been estranged for decades. The details about his strained relationship with Jagger are spelled out in Richards’ book “Life,” which will be published Oct. 26.

In an interview published Friday in The Times newspaper, Richards says he has given up drugs since he required brain surgery after falling from a tree in Fiji in 2006. He says he and Jagger are discussing another possible Stones tour despite their differences.

Feldman reprises ‘Lost Boys’ role

NEW YORK

Corey Feldman has returned to “The Lost Boys” vampire movie franchise for a third film and says fans also will feel the presence of the late Corey Haim, his co-star in the first one. “Lost Boys: The Thirst” has been released straight to DVD and Blu-ray and is in stores. Feldman reprises his starring role as vampire hunter Edgar Frog and also signed on as executive producer.

The original movie, released in 1987, starred Haim, Feldman and Jason Patric.

Associated Press