Jane Pauley, the former host of NBC's "Today Show" and "Dateline," has slapped
The New York Times with a lawsuit, claiming the newspaper duped her into giving an interview for a story that was
actually an advertising supplement for a drug company. The suit, filed this week in U.S. District Court, says Pauley believed she was giving an interview about mental health issues for a story in the
newspaper, but her words and a photograph ran in a "special advertising supplement" that promoted psychoactive drugs from Eli Lilly and other pharmaceutical companies.
Catherine Mathis, a
spokesperson for the newspaper, says that the case does not have merit: "Ms. Pauley's assistant was told that the article for which Ms. Pauley was to be interviewed would appear in a special
advertising supplement and Ms. Pauley agreed to participate."
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