How to Lose Friends and Manifest Legal Trouble: Amanda Frances
The Bravo Docket
Cesie and Angela
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Legal Team, we’re back in Beverly Hills with more research into Amanda Frances. From questionable cease-and-desist letters allegedly sent to Redditors leaving reviews, to a failed federal lawsuit over the “look and feel” of another woman’s finance book. In this episode, we break down the consumer rights issues, the limits of non-disparagement clauses for people leaving honest reviews, and why Amanda’s attempt to claim ownership over “As F**k” and bathtub-money vibes didn’t exactly impress a federal judge. Spoiler: manifestation doesn’t work on trade dress law.
What’s on the Docket?
- The cease and desist letters Amanda’s team sent to online critics
- How the Consumer Review Fairness Act protects online reviews
- Amanda’s federal lawsuit claiming another author copied her book’s “look and feel”
- What trade dress actually means
- Why the judge denied Amanda’s request to pull an allegedly competing book from shelves
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