Pop famous person lizzo is being sued through 3 of her former dancers over claims including sexual harassment and a adverse work environment.
The lawsuit, filed on tuesday, includes accusations of sexual, spiritual and racial harassment, discrimination, assault and false imprisonment.
Arianna davis, crystal williams and noelle rodriguez are the former dancers bringing the lawsuit.
Lizzo and others who're accused had been approached for comment.
The lawsuit, filed in la, includes allegations the dancers had been "pressured to undergo sexually denigrating behaviour" and have been "compelled into taking part in stressful intercourse indicates" among 2021 and 2023.
A number of the claims in opposition to lizzo - whose actual call is melissa viviane jefferson - are that she "compelled ms davis to touch the breasts" of a performer in a nightclub in amsterdam, and ms davis - after resisting - ultimately acquiesced "fearing it can harm her destiny on the crew" if she didn't achieve this.
Lizzo - who's recognized for celebrating her frame and self-love - is also accused, together with dance choreographer tanisha scott, of weight-shaming ms davis on excursion.
Ms davis alleges the 2 questioned whether she turned into "struggling with something as she seemed much less dedicated to her function at the dance forged", the lawsuit information.
Although never explicitly stated, the questions "gave ms davis the affect that she had to give an explanation for her weight benefit and divulge intimate private information about her life if you want to maintain her job", the lawsuit says.
Moreover, the lawsuit alleges the dance team's captain, shirlene quigley, driven her christian ideals on performers and derided folks that engaged in premarital sex.
She is likewise accused of openly discussing one of the former dancers' virginity, and posting about it on social media.
Accusations together with racial discrimination also are levelled at manufacturing employer large grrrl big travelling, inc.'s management crew.
It alleges black members of the dance troop had been "dealt with in a different way" to other participants of the crew.
They were accused of being "lazy, unprofessional, and having horrific attitudes" - the lawsuit claimed those are tropes often used "to disparage and discourage" black girls and that other dancers have been not treated like this.
The plaintiffs additionally allege lizzo and the production business enterprise crew did not pay them pretty while on elements of lizzo's european tour.
They claim they had been provided simplest 25% of their weekly compensatory pay for the duration of their time no longer acting at the excursion, while other performers acquired 50% and they also claim they have been told not to paintings on other tasks whilst on excursion.
Of the 3 dancers worried inside the lawsuit, ms davis and ms williams, met lizzo in march 2021 whilst getting ready to compete at the truth television display lizzo's be careful for the massive grrrls, the lawsuit says.
The 0.33, ms rodriguez, turned into hired later in may additionally 2021 to carry out in lizzo's rumours tune video. She then remained a part of the dance troop, it provides.
Ms davis and ms williams had been fired from the dance crew, while ms rodriguez later resigned over the alleged treatment of her fellow colleagues.
