Fashion designer Asha Daniels is suing the singer and members of her team, including the costume designer, after the tour dancers filed a lawsuit.
New twists and turns in the harassment case targeting Lizzo. Fashion designer Asha Daniels and former collaborator of the American singer filed a complaint against her in Los Angeles Superior Court for moral and sexual harassment.
According to these lawyers, cited by The Hollywood Reporterthis 35-year-old stylist who created clothes for the dancers on Lizzo’s tour denounced a “dangerous work atmosphere with sexual connotations” and also filed a complaint against part of the star’s team, including costume designer Amanda Nomura.
“There was an online group chat with more than 30 people from Lizzo’s touring team. In this chat, a participant sent a photo of male genitals,” Asha Daniels reports in her complaint.
During Lizzo’s tour in Amsterdam, the stylist also claims to have heard Amanda Nomura and other members of the team “discussing hiring sex workers, participating in sex shows and buying hard drugs.
“Sensationalist stories”
These allegations follow a complaint filed in early August by three former Lizzo dancers. In it, the plaintiffs – Arianna Davis, 24, Crystal Williams, 26, and Noelle Rodriguez, 25 – accuse the singer of “sexual, religious and racial harassment, disability discrimination, assault and sequestration, among other things,” according to their law firm.
Since these testimonies, other former collaborators of Lizzo have spoken out to denounce certain inappropriate behaviors of the singer like the Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Sophia Nahli Allison or Courtney Hollinquest, another former dancer and Quinn Whitney Wilson, former artistic director of Lizzo who provided support to the three complainants.
In August, Lizzo defended herself in a press release published on Instagram, in which she denounced “false accusations” and “sensationalist stories”, made by employees with “inappropriate and unprofessional behavior”. In the process, his troupe of dancers also gave him their support on Instagram.
“I am not in the habit of responding to false accusations, but these are as incredible as they seem and too serious not to be discussed,” she wrote.
Revealed to the general public in 2019 with her third album, Cuz I Love You, Lizzo has become one of the figures of the body-positive movement, which advocates love and self-acceptance regardless of appearance.
2023-09-23 11:29:42
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