
Tyler Perry has responded to the sexual assault claims levied towards him by Derek Dixon and is claiming that the actor “wants assist.”
Following Dixon’s first televised interview concerning the allegations, Perry’s authorized group has fired again with claims of extortion, falsified allegations and a failed TV pilot. The 56-year-old movie and TV titan says that Dixon relied “on Hollywood stereotypes and the unhealthy acts of others,” and tried to “flip sinister Mr. Perry’s acts of platonic friendship {and professional} mentorship,” in response to PEOPLE.
Perry’s authorized teamed filed paperwork on Oct.1 and is planning to take the matter to court docket as a substitute of bending to Dixon’s $260 million request.
“Dixon invents alleged assaults and encounters that by no means occurred,” the submitting states, as reported by PEOPLE. “Mr. Perry by no means assaulted Dixon or dedicated any sexual battery. He didn’t provide Dixon pay raises and shoot Dixon’s tv pilot script to threaten, coerce, or management Dixon. And it’s notable that in his effort to use his friendship {and professional} relationship with Mr. Perry to acquire a $260 million payday, Dixon was compelled to lie not solely about Mr. Perry, however himself too.”
It continues,
“By his actions and false accusations, it’s clear that Dixon wants assist. However he can not discover it on this Courtroom. Though Dixon alleges that he was the sufferer of escalating sexual misconduct, he had no downside taking a task on Season 2 of Mr. Perry’s tv collection The Oval.”
BOSSIP beforehand reported that Dixon is claiming he was assaulted on a number of events by Perry at his Atlanta dwelling and coerced into permitting it with the intention to maintain his job.
“We had been each strolling again to the visitor space, the place I’d stayed earlier than, and there’s this well being monitor scale on the best way. I used to be like, ‘What’s that?’ And he stated, ‘Properly it’s a must to be in your underwear to measure,” Dixon recalled. “He reached down and pulled my underwear down and grabbed my ass and I attempted to cease him and pull again my underwear up. He form of grabbed my arms and stated, ‘No no no, it’s okay. Simply go along with it.’ And I stated, ‘Cease, I don’t need to be bare. I don’t need this.’ And he stated, ‘I’m not going to harm you.’”
Dixon continued,
“Except somebody’s been via one thing the place they’ve their management over their physique taken away, you don’t actually perceive the form of emotions that you simply get in that second. Each thought got here into my head: to run, to battle, to freeze. I didn’t know what to do.”
In a particular interview with ABC, Dixon claimed that the incident adopted one other by which Perry climbed into the mattress on the visitor home that the actor was sleeping in and tried to make a transfer on him.
“I jumped up away from bed. He stated, ‘Flip round so I can have a look at you,’ and simply commented on how I regarded. And he received up and left,” Dixon stated. “I believed after that occasion, it was fairly clear that I used to be not eager about that sort of a relationship…It’s okay that individuals attempt to make a transfer or shoot their shot, but when they get rejected I feel that they need to cease. I believed it will cease after that and it didn’t.”
He claims his $260 million asking value is the least he’s owed for being subjected to the harassment. Except Dixon drops his lawsuit, he and Perry can have their day in court docket.