Natalee Holloway’s mom sues over TV series about daughter
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The mother of Natalee Holloway, a U.S. teenager who vanished during her senior trip to Aruba in 2005, is seeking at least $35 million from the producers of what she contends was a fake television documentary about the case.
Beth Holloway said in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that the deception surrounding “The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway” was so complete she was even tricked into providing a DNA sample to match against what producers claimed were remains that could be those of her long-missing daughter.
The whole show was a ruse that subjected Beth Holloway to “agonizing weeks” of uncertainty and waiting that “completely and utterly destroyed” her, according to the suit filed in Birmingham.
Holloway, a schoolteacher in north Alabama, is seeking $10 million in compensation and $25 million in punitive damages against Oxygen Media, an arm of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, and the Los Angeles-based Brian Graden Media.