Megan Thee Stallion’s legal team is vehemently refuting the allegations made by her former personal cameraman regarding harrassment and being underpaid.
According to a recent court document obtained by Rolling Stone, Megan’s attorneys, Mari Henderson and Alex Spiro, assert that the allegations of sexual harassment and labor code violations made by her former cameraman Emilio Garcia are “fabricated” and “outlandish,” with no basis in truth. As we previously reported the shocking lawsuit alleges the rapper had sex with a woman riding in an SUV in Europe with two other passengers and her and the cameraman, Emilio Garcia. The lawsuit also alleges that the singer fat-shamed the cameraman, saying things to him such as “You don’t need to be eating” and “Spit your food out.” Not only did the lawsuit make harassment claims it also noted that Megan Thee Stallion failed to provide meal and rest breaks as required by law.
“Plaintiff is a con artist who is manipulating the judicial system to act as his publicist and bullhorn in a desperate attempt to boost his failed singing career while trying to tear down the successful career of Megan thee Stallion,” Henderson and Spiro write in their response to the lawsuit. “Throughout his tenure as an independently contracted photographer and videographer for Ms. Pete and her production companies…(Garcia) repeatedly falsified his invoices and overcharged Ms. Pete for services he never completed and sought reimbursements for money he never spent.”
Megan’s legal team claims that Garcia’s consistent misrepresentations were so frequent that their client had no choice but to fire him in June 2023.
“Angry at the loss of this high-profile gig and his exile from the inner circles of stardom, (Garcia) filed a factually and legally frivolous complaint. (He) took a run of the mill wage and labor dispute and trumped up his frivolous claims with sensationalist false allegations of sex, debauchery, and workplace harassment for the sole purpose of creating a media firestorm to tarnish the career and reputation of Ms. Pete,” the lawyers shared.
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According to the court documents obtained by @nbc, Megan Thee Stallion’s former camera-man Emilio Garcia claims he was trapped inside a moving vehicle with the rapper while she engaged in sexual activities with another woman. According to the documents the incident took place around June 2022 when Garcia was tour with Meg and they were in Ibiza, Spain. The suit continues to allege that after a night out while riding in a SUV “suddenly Stallion and one other woman start[ed] having sex right beside Garcia,” the documents state. Garcia “could not get out of the car as it was both moving, and he was in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country,” the document continued.
Garcia went on to claim that the incident made him feel uncomfortable. “I was kind of frozen, and I was shocked. At kind of just be the overall audacity to do this right, right beside me,” Garcia explained to NBC News. He also went on to say that he spoke to Megan Thee Stallion the next day and she told him “Don’t ever discuss what you saw” before she allegedly “berated and directed her fat-shaming comments towards Garcia, such as ‘Fat B-tch.’” Also allegedly telling him “you don’t need to be eating.” Emilio Garcia reportedly began working for Megan Thee Stallion in 2018 and left his other job in 2019 to work exclusively with the rapper.
“What I learned throughout the years is that, especially coming from an from an office environment, is you know, there’s no HR department in the entertainment business,” Garcia told NBC News in an interview. “So if you don’t know that you’re being done wrong, you don’t really know how to advocate for yourself until you start asking maybe you start asking your peers who have representation, they have agents, they have management, they have attorney. So I just really just want to encourage people to advocate for themselves.”
did that really really happen with the Stallion in the moving vehicle, I watch TUBI TV and a lot go on with those young girls. LOL !
Well two each it’s own!
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