5:50 PM PT — Correction: An earlier model of the story recognized the plaintiffs within the lawsuit in opposition to Louis Vuitton because the singer Brandi Williams and her mom Tracy Renee Williams. This was inaccurate. The story has been modified to appropriate the error.
Louis Vuitton has been hit with a lawsuit from a mom and daughter who declare they have been handled unfairly on the style model’s shops in comparison with white customers in the identical shops.
Based on courtroom docs, Tracy Renee Williams says she preordered and paid about $50,000 for gadgets at a Costa Mesa LV retailer, however by no means acquired the supply. When she went to a Beverly Hills location, she claims a white supervisor informed her she was not welcome and that she could be arrested if she stayed or got here again.
Tracy claims a number of days later, she despatched her white assistant to the shop, and he was handled respectfully and allowed to make a purchase order with a number of thousand {dollars} in money.
Williams says she has a profitable social media presence the place she critiques and showcases LV items, and claims she’s misplaced about $40,000 a month in income since being banned from the shops.
Her daughter Brandi additionally alleges discrimination … saying an LV supervisor at a Beverly Hills retailer refused to let her store, falsely accusing her of spending “drug money” and threatening to have her arrested if she didn’t go away. She claims the identical factor occurred at an LV retailer in New Orleans.
Tracy and Brandi’s pal Kristopher Enoch additionally claims he noticed workers present a white buyer a selected jacket, however he says he was informed it wasn’t accessible when he requested to purchase it. Kristopher alleges he later acquired an electronic mail saying he was blacklisted from the shops.
All three are searching for damages, together with punitive, and wish the courtroom to order the corporate to cease blacklisting them.
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