One other lawsuit has reportedly been filed in opposition to Lizzo. Based on Rolling Stone, Asra Daniels, who labored for Lizzo throughout her 2023 Special 2our as a wardrobe designer, filed a lawsuit in opposition to Lizzo, her wardrobe supervisor Amanda Nomura, and her tour supervisor Carlina Gugliotta at present (September 21) in a Los Angeles court docket.

The go well with reportedly accuses Lizzo and her group of “racial and sexual harassment, incapacity discrimination, unlawful retaliatory termination, and assault.”

Based on Rolling Stone, Nomura is on the heart of the lawsuit, and Daniels has accused Nomura of creating “racist and fatphobic feedback” towards Lizzo’s dancers.

The go well with additionally alleges that “Nomura would additionally discuss with Black girls on the tour as ‘dumb,’ ‘ineffective,’ and ‘fats.’”

Within the go well with, it’s also famous that “Nomura expressed that she would ‘kill a b*tch if it got here right down to it’ if anybody threatened her job. Lizzo’s administration was nicely conscious of this sample of habits. Carlina Gugliotta, Lizzo’s Tour Supervisor even requested Plaintiff to report Nomura with out her data, which Plaintiff didn’t do because it was each unethical and presumably illegal.”

Elsewhere within the go well with are particulars of Lizzo’s administration “sharing graphic and disturbing photographs of male genitalia” in a 30-person group textual content, in addition to an incident through which Daniels describes Nomura rolling “a heavy clothes rack over Daniels’ foot, inflicting severe ache, however Nomura merely ignored it and pushed Daniels into the rack, inflicting a extra extreme harm.”

Daniels was reportedly fired abruptly from the tour, and claims to have suffered psychological and bodily well being points because of her time working with Lizzo and her group.

The information arrives as Lizzo is getting ready to obtain the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award introduced by the Black Music Motion Coalition.

Forward of the awards ceremony, Ron Zambrano, who’s representing Daniels and three of Lizzo’s former dancers, issued an announcement, saying:

“The timing of this award’s announcement stinks of an architected PR stunt by Lizzo’s group geared toward attempting to restore the harm carried out to her model. It gained’t work. With Lizzo’s assault on the opposite plaintiffs, we’ve heard from greater than two dozen former Lizzo workers sharing related tales of abuse and harassment who could possibly be potential new plaintiffs. This isn’t going away. Lizzo is the boss so the buck stops together with her. She has created a sexualized and racially charged surroundings on her excursions that her administration workers sees as condoning such habits, and so it continues unchecked. Lizzo definitely is aware of what’s happening however chooses to not put an finish to this disgusting and unlawful conduct and participates herself.”

Stefan Friedman, a consultant for Lizzo, has issued an announcement to Rolling Stone has issued an announcement coming to the singer’s protection, saying:

“As Lizzo receives a Humanitarian Award tonight from the Black Music Motion Coalition for the unimaginable charitable work she has carried out to raise up all folks, an ambulance-chasing lawyer tries to sully this honor by recruiting somebody to file a bogus, absurd publicity-stunt lawsuit who, look ahead to it, by no means truly met and even spoke with Lizzo. We can pay this as a lot consideration because it deserves. None.”

Lizzo is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an unbiased subsidiary of Warner Music Group.