LIZZO has been accused of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment by three former dancers.
Here’s everything you need to know about the allegations against Lizzo.
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What are the allegations against Lizzo?
Three dancers have filed a lawsuit accusing Lizzo of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment.
They also said that she pressured one of them into touching a nude performer at a club in Amsterdam.
The lawsuit also claims that Lizzo made the dancers carry out an “excruciating” 12-hour audition after falsely accusing them of drinking on the job.
Lizzo is also alleged to have pointed out a dancer’s weight gain – before firing her when she recorded a meeting because of a health condition.
The dancer’s law firm gave the suit to NBC News after filing it in Los Angeles Superior Court.
It also claims that Lizzo’s dance captain Shirlene Quigley shared “lewd fantasies”, simulated oral sex, and publicly discussed the virginity of one of the dancers.
The suit also brings claims for religious and racial harassment, false imprisonment, and interference with prospective economic disadvantage.
Who are the dancers who filed the lawsuit?
Three of Lizzo’s artists are named as plaintiffs in the complaint – Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams, and Noelle Rodriguez.
The suit claims that Lizzo and a choreographer told Davis that she seemed “less committed” to her role in a “thinly veiled” comment about her weight.
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It also alleges that Lizzo pressured Davis to touch the breasts of a nude performer at a club in Amsterdam.
Lizzo’s dance captain Quigley is accused of discussing Davis’s virginity without permission on social media and in interviews.
Davis allegedly lost her job days after Lizzo’s assertion that the dancers were drinking before performances.
The suit claims that she was so afraid of losing her job if she went to the bathroom that she wet herself during the “excruciating” 12-hour rehearsal which followed.
Lizzo is accused of firing Davis on the spot after she recorded a meeting because of her eye condition.
A member of Lizzo’s security detail allegedly forced Davis to stay in the room while he searched her phone for the video.
Williams was allegedly fired in a hotel lobby days after she challenged Lizzo’s claim that the dancers drank before performances.
When Rodriguez threatened to resign over the treatment of Davis and Williams, Lizzo is accused of “cracking her knuckles and balling her fist”.
The singer allegedly went on to swear, raise her middle finger and yell a slur.
What has Lizzo said?
Lizzo and Quigley did not respond to requests for comment from the press.
The dancers’ lawyer Ron Zambrano told NBC: “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.”
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