The similar day the singer Lizzo approved a humanitarian award, any other former employee filed a lawsuit in opposition to her for allegedly condoning a adversarial paintings surroundings.
The lawsuit was filed Thursday by means of Asha Daniels, a cloth wardrobe clothier who labored on Lizzo’s excursion previous this yr. The lawsuit names Lizzo, whose actual identify is Melissa Jefferson, her manufacturing corporate Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc., and her cloth wardrobe and excursion managers Amanda Nomura and Carlina Gugliotta.Â
The lawsuit additionally comes after the singer was sued by means of 3 former employers previous this yr for sexual harassment and making a adversarial paintings surroundings. Lizzo answered to the ones proceedings in August, calling her former employee’s tales “sensationalized.”
Lizzo’s consultant answered to the newest lawsuit Thursday, calling the lawsuit “bogus.”
“As Lizzo receives a Humanitarian Award this night from the Black Music Action Coalition for the unbelievable charitable paintings she has accomplished to carry up all other folks, an ambulance-chasing legal professional tries to sully this honor by means of recruiting anyone to document a bogus, absurd publicity-stunt lawsuit who, look ahead to it, by no means if truth be told met and even spoke with Lizzo,” Lizzo’s spokesperson Stefan Friedman wrote in a remark to KHOU.Â
The lawsuit in opposition to Lizzo, who was raised in Houston, was first reported by means of nationwide retailers, together with NBC and CBS.
Latest allegations
According to the newest lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, Daniels’ civil lawsuit alleges, “degradation, forced physical labor, denial of medical care, sexual harassment and racial harassment were allowed to take place by Lizzo’s management without consequence because she is a Black woman.”
According to the lawsuit, Daniels was steered to by no means have interaction with Lizzo and her boyfriend and to not dress attractively in entrance of Lizzo so she would not transform jealous.
Another allegation claimed that Lizzo’s dancers had been made to trade in between performances with “little to no privacy” whilst Lizzo’s degree workforce, who had been principally White males, “would lewdly gawk, sneer, and giggle while watching the dancers rush through their outfit changes.” When Daniels complained, the lawsuit claimed her manager laughed and Daniels was “advised” not to alert someone else about the problem or repair it.
Daniels, “would later learn details that led her to believe this was a setup to humiliate, degrade, alienate, and, in some cases, fire, the Black female performers,” the lawsuit reads.
The lawsuit additionally alleges Daniels heard racist and fatphobic feedback from her manager all through her employment, and her manager would make stereotypical impressions of Black girls and refer to them as “dumb,” “useless,” and “fat.”
Daniels additionally allegedly skilled sexual harassment from Lizzo’s staff when a excursion supervisor allegedly despatched a photograph of male genitalia in a bunch chat.
“No one from Lizzo’s management team addressed this graphic sexual imagery in the workplace appropriately,” the lawsuit reads. “Instead, Lizzo’s management found the image to be comical, further encouraging an unsafe, sexually charged workplace culture.”
Daniels allegedly introduced all of her considerations of standard racial and sexual harassment to control once more in February 2023, however the lawsuit mentioned not anything modified. According to the lawsuit, Daniels was then fired for talking up and was despatched house from the excursion March 6, 2023.
Daniel’s legal professional told KHOU they hope for a jury trial. For damages, she is looking for unpaid wages, lack of income and deferred reimbursement.
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