Lizzo’s Ex-Assistant Wants To Take Her Lawsuit To Court

Lizzo‘s former assistant, Asha Daniels, desires to take her lawsuit in opposition to the singer to courtroom, alleging that her touring firm, Huge Grrrl Huge Touring Inc., fostered a hostile work atmosphere. In response to AllHipHop, she has filed a movement asking for a decide to reject Lizzo’s movement for abstract judgment within the case. She has additionally not requested a selected monetary award for damages as of but.

Describing a few of her complaints with the work atmosphere, Daniels alleges in her lawsuit that penis-shaped sweet circulated round, folks consistently made sexual jokes, and pictures of male genitalia had been on show in group areas. Moreover, she claims she handled alleged racial harassment from her supervisor, Amanda Nomura. She says she reported the habits, however administration did not take any motion.

Lizzo and the Huge Grrrl Huge Touring group have denied the allegations in Daniels’ lawsuit. “Daniels isn’t a sufferer of discrimination or harassment, however a disgruntled former worker with an inflated ego, private vendettas … and an unquenchable thirst without cost publicity,” Marty Singer, an lawyer for Huge Grrrl Huge Touring, stated, per Billboard. “Her frivolous lawsuit makes a mockery of true victims and the legal guidelines designed to guard them.”

Daniels claims managers advised her a number of totally different causes for her firing in 2023. She says one supervisor stated, “it simply wasn’t figuring out,” whereas one other thought she give up.

In his assertion to Billboard, Singer continued: “BGBT terminated Daniels as a result of she couldn’t work productively with [her manager], was inexperienced, didn’t need to proceed with the Tour, and did not adjust to security rules, Tour protocol and [her manager]’s directions. Regardless of purportedly being traumatized by alleged harassment and discrimination, she affords no particular info to help her claims or a single witness or doc to corroborate her absurd allegations.”