LOS ANGELES – Two lawsuits have been filed in the case of Natalee Holloway, the high school student who disappeared in Aruba. Her parents, Elizabeth Twitty and Dave Holloway, sued Deepak Kalpoe and Satish Kalpoe for wrongful death, claiming the Kalpoes had sex with her and killed her.

In the other case, the Kalpoes sued CBS TV and Phillip McGraw, known as “Dr. Phil,” claiming the TV personality defamed them by doctoring tapes to make it seem that the Kalpoes drugged and had sex with Holloway. The girl’s parents claim that in suing CBS in Los Angeles, the Kalpoes have submitted to the jurisdiction of the Superior Court, where both cases were filed.

The parents say Natalee was last seen getting into a gray Honda with the Kalpoes and Joran van der Sloot in the early hours of May 30, 2005. She was never seen again and her body has not been found. Her parents claim the Kalpoes killed her, and that van der Sloot told this to Aruban police. The parents are represented by Joseph Davis of Los Angeles and The Kelly Group of New York, N.Y. In their defamation claim, the Kalpoes claim that co-defendant Jamie Skeeters, a private investigator hired by the Dr. Phil show, and his defendant business, Security Consultant Services of Ojai, recorded the Kalpoes surreptitiously and illegally, and that the defendants “manipulated and altered the audio and video recording to change (Deepak’s) denial into an admission that the plaintiffs had sex with Natalee Holloway the night she disappeared.”

In this case, the Kalpoes are represented by Kristina Beck with Cremer, Kopon, Shaughnessy & Spina of Chicago.