Lizzo Moves To Shutter Racial & Sexual Harassment Suit; Slammed By Tour Wardrobe Designer’s Lawyer For Trying To “Shift Blame”

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When Asha Daniels filed her illegal retaliatory termination, racial and sexual harassment lawsuit against Lizzo and her touring team in September, the Grammy winner bashed the action by her former tour wardrobe designer as “a bogus, absurd publicity-stunt.” Now, the ‘Truth Hurts” singer and her Big Grrl Big Touring, Inc.

want a state judge to toss the matter out. Staking their December 15 filed demurrer in LA Superior Court on Daniels having no right to utilize California laws while working for a Delaware corporation in Europe, the document from Marty Singer’s firm rips “Plaintiff, a New York resident” for her “meritless and salacious action after less than three weeks of employment by BGBT” (bold and italics theirs). “During her brief employment by BGBT, Plaintiff refused to comply with instructions from her supervisors and tour management, failed to perform the work that she was assigned and, eventually, just played hooky and refused to show up for work,” the motion states of what they say really went down during Daniels’ February 14, 2023 to March 6, 2023 stint on Lizzo’s The Special Tour. “Unsurprisingly, she was terminated after abandoning her post on the day of a concert in Paris, France,” the filing adds of the March 5 gig at Accor Arena in the City of Light’s 12th arrondissement (read Lizzo’s motion to have Daniels case tossed out here).

Filed on the same day that Lizzo received the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award from the Black Music Action Coalition, Daniels’ legal action of September 21 cited a “toxic work environment” and a “culture of racism and bullying on Lizzo’s tour.” Damning allegations in any context, Daniels complaint also came about seven weeks after ex-tour dancers Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams