Megan Thee Stallion Accused Of Backseat Sex, Forcing Staffer To Watch

Megan Thee Stallion’s former private cameraman is taking the Imply Women actress and Roc Nation to court docket for creating an “insupportable” and “hostile abusive work setting.”

In a nine-claim grievance filed right this moment in LA Superior Court docket, Emilio Garcia is accusing Megan Pete (Thee Stallion’s actual title), her personal firm, her Scorching Lady Touring, and the Jay-Z based leisure platform of underpaying him, misclassifying him, and inflicting “extreme emotional misery and anxiousness” on account of overwork virtually for the reason that second he began working for the Plan B singer in July 2018 (learn the entire grievance right here).

Particularly, it appears an alleged specific incident at the back of a shifting automotive virtually two years in the past that proved the ultimate straw – for all involved:

On or round June 2022, PLAINTIFF was touring on tour with STALLION in Ibiza, Spain. After an evening out, PLAINTIFF, STALLION, and three different ladies had been using in a SUV collectively. Immediately, STALLION and one of many different ladies begin having intercourse proper beside PLAINTIFF. PLAINTIFF couldn’t get out of the automotive because it was each shifting and he was in the course of nowhere in another country. PLAINTIFF was embarrassed, mortified and offended all through the entire ordeal.

The next day, STALLION inquired whether or not PLAINTIFF was within the SUV the earlier night time. PLAINTIFF confirmed that he was within the SUV. Subsequently, STALLION instructed, “Don’t ever talk about what you noticed.” STALLION berated and directed her fat-shaming feedback in direction of PLAINTIFF resembling “Fats Bitch,” “Spit your meals out,” and that “You don’t have to be consuming.”

After confiding within the Make-up Artist, STALLION discovered of the PLAINTIFF’s contemplation of quitting on account of STALLION’s possessiveness mixed with lack of applicable pay for the period of time requested of him (as mentioned absolutely beneath. Later that night time, STALLION drunkenly FaceTimed the PLAINTIFF and, after Plaintiff expressed his perception he was being underpaid for the quantity of hours truly requested of him, they reached an “understanding,” with STALLION affirming, “We’re good.”

Regardless of the dialog, PLAINTIFF remained scheduled for STALLION’s upcoming gig the next Friday.

Nonetheless, on or round June 2023, ROC NATION unexpectedly reached out to PLAINTIFF the night time earlier than the scheduled Friday gig and knowledgeable him that his companies would now not be required by STALLION.

Whereas the claimed backseat copulation will undoubtedly get a lot of the consideration out of Garcia’s go well with, it’s the labor violations that make up the majority of the jury trial in search of submitting. For example, amidst late night time calls and TikTok consultations, Garica’s West Coast Employment Legal professionals famous that “STALLION particularly informed Plaintiff he was not allowed to service every other shopper aside from herself on a couple of event.”

Garcia additionally alleges that he went from a $4,000 a month wage throughout his first few years working for Stallion and Roc Nation to out of the blue being lower to a a lot decrease “pay-per-task system invoiced for every project” though his 50 hours and extra workflow stayed the identical.

“Megan simply must pay our shopper what he’s due, come clean with her habits and give up this type of sexual harassment and fats shaming conduct,” Garica’s lawyer Ron Zambrano asserts. “Emilio ought to by no means have been put ready of getting to be within the automobile along with her whereas she had intercourse with one other girl. Inappropriate’ is placing it calmly. Exposing this habits to workers is certainly unlawful.”

Stallion’s lawyer tells Deadline this complete factor is shakedown.

“That is an employment declare for cash — with no sexual harassment declare filed and with salacious accusations to try to embarrass her,” says Alex Spiro. “We’ll cope with this in court docket.”

If that title appears acquainted to you, it’s as a result of the Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan accomplice was not solely one in all Harvey Weinstein’s attorneys for some time however is presently additionally on Alec Baldwin‘s protection staff for the involuntary manslaughter expenses the multi-Emmy winner is dealing with in New Mexico over the October 2021 killing of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. Whereas combating to get the most recent expenses in opposition to the indie Western star/producer thrown out, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and native legal professionals are up in opposition to a July 9 trial begin date for Baldwin.

On the opposite aspect of the case, you may acknowledge Zambrano and West Coast Employment Legal professionals from their work representing a number of of former Lizzo‘s tour dancers of their sexual harassment, discrimination and unlawful retaliatory termination lawsuit in opposition to the Grammy winner.

Filed in LASC final August, Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez declare they had been made to go Parisian intercourse golf equipment with Lizzo. The trio are additionally say they had been body-shamed, put by an “excruciating” audition for their very own jobs after they had been accused of consuming on the clock, and held to prohibitive “tender maintain” retainers. Lizzo has known as the claims out as “sensationalized tales.” Represented by Marty Singer’s agency, Lizzo has tried to have the motion, which is now one in all many, dismissed. Whereas she hasn’t succeed at that, Lizzo has seen the go well with trimmed, considerably.

Now dealing with Garcia’s go well with for quite a lot of unspecified damages, Megan Thee Stallion is about to exit on the highway this summer time. The 31-date Scorching Lady Summer season Tour kicks off Could 14 in Minneapolis and ends on July 27 in Washington, D.C.