Lizzo is facing serious allegations from three of her former dancers – Crystal Williams, Arianna Davis, and Noelle Rodriguez.
The lawsuit, filed in the Los Angeles Superior Court, accuses the singer of subjecting the dancers to various forms of mistreatment, such as sexual harassment, religious discrimination, racial harassment, assault, and false imprisonment. One specific incident mentioned by the plaintiffs involves Lizzo pressuring the dancers to interact with nude performers at a club in Amsterdam, and subsequently shaming one of them for her weight gain, leading to her termination.
According to the court filing, after a concert in Amsterdam, Lizzo and her crew attended a sexually themed show in the city’s infamous Red Light District, where Lizzo allegedly encouraged the cast members to touch the nude performers. During this show, Lizzo reportedly led a chant, pressuring one of the dancers, Arianna Davis, to touch the breasts of one of the nude women performing at the club.
The legal complaint seeks unspecified damages and has named Melissa Viviane Jefferson, known professionally as Lizzo, her production company Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc., and Shirlene Quigley, the captain of Lizzo’s dance team, as the defendants in the case.
Quigley, who was a judge on Lizzo’s reality show “Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls,” is accused of imposing her Christian beliefs on the dancers, referring to Arianna Davis as a “non-believer,” and insisting that she would not be deterred from talking about her religious beliefs, regardless of the circumstances.
