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- A dishy lawsuit from Ozy accuses Ben Smith of killing the company only to steal its business model for Semafor.
- It alleges Smith violated an NDA by disclosing trade secrets from a failed BuzzFeed merger.
- Smith sabotaged Ozy as a New York Times columnist, then created "Ozy 2.0" with his outlet Semafor, it claims.
Did Ben Smith sabotage Ozy only to plunder its ideas for Semafor?
That's the question at the heart of a lawsuit filed Thursday morning in Brooklyn Federal Court, alleging that Smith, the Semafor co-founder and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, violated a non-disclosure agreement and stole trade secrets from Ozy in order to build his own media company.