Lena Dunham’s legal team is threatening to sue conservative organization Truth Revolt for publishing a story about excerpts in her memoir Not That Kind of Girl that they equate to her confessing to sexually abusing her younger sister.
She has both tweeted about their allegations and sent a formal statement, making it clear she does not “condone any kind of abuse under any circumstances.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, her lawyers at the firm Harder Mirell & Abrams have sent a letter to Truth Revolt asking them to “immediately print a prominent public apology and retraction at all media whereat you published the story."
"The story is false, fabricated, and has the obvious tendency to subject my client to ridicule, and to injure her in her occupation," wrote attorney Charles Harder.
For their part, Truth Revolt refuses to back down from their statements, as they wrote on their site.
‘We refuse to withdraw our story or apologize for running it, because quoting a woman's book does not constitute a 'false' story, even if she is a prominent actress and left-wing activist," wrote Ben Shapiro, who runs the website. "Lena Dunham may not like our interpretation of her book, but unfortunately for her and her attorneys, she wrote that book — and the First Amendment covers a good deal of material she may not like."
Truth Revolt wrote about passages in her book during which she wrote she “spread open” her 1-year-old sister’s vagina that she was “experimenting sexually with her younger sister Grace, whom she says she attempted to persuade to kiss her using 'anything a sexual predator might do.' "
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