Lizzo has been sued by three former dancers for sexual harassment and making a hostile work setting, NBC Information experiences. The lawsuit, considered by Pitchfork, was filed as we speak in Los Angeles Superior Court docket and likewise named Lizzo’s Large Grrrl Large Touring manufacturing firm and dance captain Shirlene Quigley. The dancers are suing for damages over emotional misery together with unpaid wages, lack of earnings, and lawyer’s charges. Pitchfork has reached out to Lizzo’s representatives and Quigley for remark.
The three dancers behind the lawsuit all started working with Lizzo in 2021. Arianna Davis and Crystal Williams have been employed across the Amazon actuality collection Watch Out for the Large Grrrls. A 3rd, Noelle Rodriguez, was employed after showing within the 2021 “Rumors” video.
The lawsuit additionally described an incident that happened at a post-show afterparty in Amsterdam earlier this 12 months the place Lizzo allegedly pressured Davis to the touch the breasts of a nude performer with goading chants. The lawsuit additionally claims Lizzo inspired dancers to “catch dildos launched from the performers’ vaginas and eat bananas protruding from the performers’ vaginas.”
“Plaintiffs have been aghast with how little regard Lizzo confirmed for the bodily autonomy of her workers and people round her, particularly within the presence of many individuals whom she employed,” the lawsuit states. The dancers additionally claimed she invited them to a Paris cabaret bar for “inspiration” with out disclosing that the performers could be nude.
Davis additionally sued the manufacturing firm and Lizzo for incapacity discrimination. The dancer claimed that Lizzo known as consideration to the dancer’s weight in a “thinly veiled” remark about her seeming “much less dedicated” to her work following a SXSW efficiency. Davis claimed Lizzo was “relentless” in asking her to reveal which “private points” she was coping with, and subsequently, Davis disclosed that she was combating anxiousness, melancholy, and had been identified with binge consuming dysfunction. The lawsuit states:
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