Filmmaker and producer Tyler Perry is going through a sexual misconduct lawsuit.
The lawsuit was filed by actor Derek Dixon, who alleges that Perry engaged in sexual misconduct throughout and after Dixon’s time engaged on Perry’s tv productions.
Perry and his staff have strongly denied the allegations.
An announcement despatched to Metro by reps for Perry, on behalf of Matthew Boyd, lawyer for Tyler Perry and TPS Manufacturing Companies, LLC, reads: ‘That is a person who obtained near Tyler Perry…We’re assured these claims of harassment will fail.’
In keeping with the lawsuit, as reported by TMZ, Dixon alleges that he first met Perry in 2019 at a public occasion, the place he claims the director approached him and requested his telephone quantity.
Dixon says that this interplay later led to a small performing function in two episodes of Ruthless, a sequence produced by Tyler Perry Studios.
He alleges that in January 2020, he was invited to Perry’s Atlanta residence.
Throughout the go to, he claims he consumed alcohol, stayed in a single day in a visitor room, and skilled an incident by which Perry allegedly entered the room and made undesirable bodily contact.
The lawsuit additional claims that though Dixon rejected these alleged advances, Perry maintained communication with him afterward, in keeping with the outlet.
Dixon later landed a recurring function because the character Dale in Perry’s BET sequence The Oval. Within the lawsuit, Dixon alleges that Perry despatched him sexually suggestive messages throughout this era.
He additionally claims that his character’s storyline – portraying a homosexual and homeless man partaking in transactional relationships – mirrored what he alleges Perry described as his private superb accomplice: somebody loyal and dependent.
The lawsuit reportedly consists of claims of sexually specific textual content messages and describes extra alleged incidents at Perry’s Atlanta dwelling. Dixon alleges that in one encounter in 2021, Perry entered his visitor room and initiated non-consensual bodily contact.
He claims he repeatedly rejected the advances and ultimately filed a criticism with the Equal Employment Alternative Fee (EEOC) in June 2024 earlier than resigning from The Oval.
Dixon is suing Tyler Perry and Tyler Perry Studios for alleged sexual harassment, quid professional quo harassment, sexual battery, and assault. He’s looking for $260million in damages, in keeping with TMZ.
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