When Asha Daniels filed her unlawful retaliatory termination, racial and sexual harassment lawsuit towards Lizzo and her touring workforce in September, the Grammy winner bashed the motion by her former tour wardrobe designer as “a bogus, absurd publicity-stunt.” Now, the ‘Fact Hurts” singer and her Huge Grrl Huge Touring, Inc. desire a state choose to toss the matter out.
Staking their December 15 filed demurrer in LA Superior Court docket on Daniels having no proper to make the most of California legal guidelines whereas working for a Delaware company in Europe, the doc from Marty Singer’s agency rips “Plaintiff, a New York resident” for her “meritless and salacious motion after lower than three weeks of employment by BGBT” (daring and italics theirs).
“Throughout her temporary employment by BGBT, Plaintiff refused to adjust to directions from her supervisors and tour administration, did not carry out the work that she was assigned and, finally, simply performed hooky and refused to point out up for work,” the movement states of what they are saying actually went down throughout Daniels’ February 14, 2023 to March 6, 2023 stint on Lizzo’s The Particular Tour. “Unsurprisingly, she was terminated after abandoning her publish on the day of a live performance in Paris, France,” the submitting provides of the March 5 gig at Accor Area within the Metropolis of Mild’s 12th arrondissement (learn Lizzo’s movement to have Daniels case tossed out right here).
Filed on the identical day that Lizzo obtained the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award from the Black Music Motion Coalition, Daniels’ authorized motion of September 21 cited a “poisonous work surroundings” and a “tradition of racism and bullying on Lizzo’s tour.”
Damning allegations in any context, Daniels criticism additionally took place seven weeks after ex-tour dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez sued Lizzo, BGBT and others for harassment, assault and discrimination. Six months earlier than that trio took to the courts, it has since been revealed that 14 dancers who carried out with Lizzo have been a part of a greater than $100,000 settlement associated to unauthorized use of their picture within the 2022 documentary Love, Lizzo.
Immediately, Daniels’ lawyer Ron Zambrano, who’s a part of the agency additionally representing Davis, Williams and Rodriguez, accused Lizzo’s attorneys of sufferer shaming, once more.
“This movement was anticipated and is yet one more Hail Mary by Lizzo’s workforce to attempt to shift blame to the victims, as she has carried out to the three different plaintiffs who’ve sued her for related allegations of harassment, incapacity discrimination and retaliatory termination,” the West Coast Leisure Legal professionals accomplice mentioned in an announcement. “Lizzo and her attorneys can proceed making an attempt to rationalize her unlawful and wretched conduct, however we stay dedicated to searching for justice for our purchasers and stay up for our day in court docket the place Lizzo can clarify her conduct in a public discussion board.”
That day could possibly be coming early subsequent 12 months. Lizzo’s Lavely & Singer workforce are requesting a January 24, 2024 listening to on their demurrer movement in entrance on LASC Decide Mark H. Epstein on the Santa Monica Courthouse.
Lizzo’s attorneys filed a rapidly contested anti-SLAPP movement on October 27 to have Davis, Williams and Rodriguez’s swimsuit dismissed. On the conclusion of November 22 listening to on the movement, Decide Epstein mentioned he wouldn’t be issuing a ruling for at the least three weeks – and he nonetheless hasn’t.
