Court Documents: Blanchard and 20cDesign v. Gannett, Artnet and others
Court records from U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
This page hosts court documents behind Urgent Matter's reporting on the defamation and tortious interference suit brought by Cynthia Blanchard and the Dallas dealer 20cDesign over 2024 coverage of the Price Tower artifact sale, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
The central document is the plaintiffs' first amended complaint, dated August 12, which names several media companies, the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, and four individuals.
Among other filings, this package of documents includes exhibits containing copies of the articles at issue from Architectural Digest, Artnet, the Tulsa World, Smithsonian Magazine, the Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise, and Dwell; the conservancy's August 2025 press release; and the pre-suit cease-and-desist correspondence between Blanchard and the news outlets' lawyers.
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