Lizzo simply scored a win in her authorized battle towards 3 former backup dancers … the ladies have dropped their claims that Lizzo fat-shamed them, regardless of the remainder of the case shifting ahead … TMZ has discovered.
Lizzo’s powerhouse lawyer, Marty Singer, and his associate, Melissa Y. Glass, inform TMZ the fat-shaming claims have been a serious a part of the sexual harassment lawsuit introduced by Arianna Davis, Noelle Rodriguez, and Crystal Williams, however they insist it at all times lacked benefit.
Based on Lizzo’s attorneys, the allegations have been refuted by 18 witnesses in sworn declarations submitted to the court docket.
They are saying the Superior Court docket decide concluded Davis was fired as a result of she made “an unauthorized recording of Lizzo in a dancer meeting and sent it to Williams, who was no longer working on The Special Tour” … and now the dancers dropped their attraction of the dismissal of the fat-shaming claims.
The fat-shaming claims are simply considered one of many who they introduced towards the artist.
You will recall … again in 2023, Arianna, Noelle and Crystal claimed Lizzo subjected them to nude leisure reveals in Amsterdam and Paris on tour, which they stated they have been clearly uncomfortable with.
Within the docs, the ladies say Lizzo pressured dancers to work together with intercourse performers at Bananenbar in Amsterdam, the place patrons are identified to eat bananas out of the performers’ vaginas. Lizzo denies the claims.
Whereas the extra critical claims are nonetheless being disputed in court docket, Lizzo’s group says they continue to be “confident she will prevail in the case.”
However the dancers’ lawyer, Ronald Zambrano, informed TMZ, “We are maintaining that Judge Epstein was correct in his ruling denying Lizzo’s special motion to strike the vast majority of claims they attacked, including false imprisonment and harassment. Of the couple of claims Judge Epstein did dismiss, the plaintiffs have taken a considered approach to leave that be. One would hope to see the same level of intellectual honesty and neutral assessment from the defendants, but that hasn’t been the case thus far and it’s disappointing.”