Lizzo sued for alleged hostile work environment, harassment by former dancers
Grammy-grant winning vocalist Lizzo is being sued by three of her previous artists for supposed badgering and establishing a threatening workplace.
The objection was documented Tuesday in Los Angeles Province Unrivaled Court against Lizzo, whose legitimate name is Melissa Viviane Jefferson, as well as her creation organization Large Grrrl Huge Visiting, Inc. (BGBT).
Shirlene Quigley, skipper of Lizzo's dance group, is additionally named in the grumbling.
Artists Arianna Davis, Precious stone Williams and Noelle Rodriguez assert "sexual, strict and racial provocation, incapacity segregation, attack and bogus detainment," as indicated by the official statement about the claim from the offended parties' lawyer Ron Zambrano.
Zambrano stated, "The stunning nature of how Lizzo and her management team treated their performers seems to go against everything Lizzo stands for publicly." "Privately she weight-shames her dancers and demeans them in ways that are not only illegal but absolutely demoralizing," he added. "The stunning nature of how Lizzo and her management team treated their performers."
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The protest claims that Lizzo constrained her artists to participate in a naked photograph shoot during Lizzo's "Watch Out for the Large Grrrls" dance rivalry show on Amazon Prime, as well as go to bare exhibitions and contact bare entertainers at clubs in the Seedy area of town in Amsterdam.
Additionally, dancers assert that Lizzo "tricked" them into attending a nude cabaret bar and concealed information about the event.
Offended parties additionally blame BGBT the executives for oppressing the Dark individuals from the dance group in both compensation and treatment.
The artists additionally blame Quigley for teaching Christianity and against early sex in the work environment, "while oversharing her masturbatory propensities and sexual coexistence with her significant other," as per the public statement. She is likewise blamed for broadcasting an artist's virginity in the work environment, as well as in meetings and virtual entertainment.
Davis and Williams say they were terminated, while Rodriguez surrendered over the supposed work environment.
"Fearing that Lizzo intended to hit her and would have done so if one of the other dancers had not intervened," Rodriguez stated when she resigned, "Lizzo aggressively approached Ms. Rodriquez, cracking her knuckles, balling her fists."
The pop star of "Truth Hurts" is well-known for her advocacy for body positivity and upbeat pop music about self-love.
Lizzo's agents, BGBT and Quigley have not yet returned ABC News' solicitations for input.
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