‘Under Deck’ Alum Emile Kotze
Sues NBCUniversal for $850 Million …
Community Denies Sexual Harassment Allegation
Revealed
“Below Deck” alum Emile Kotze claims producers portrayed him as “immature” and “sexually aggressive,” and now he’s taking them to courtroom over it — however the producers say his swimsuit needs to be tossed out as a result of they’re protected underneath the First Modification … TMZ has discovered.
Emile filed a federal lawsuit in New York demanding $850 million in damages from NBCUniversal and the truth present producers.
Emile says he is a South African citizen {and professional} yacht deckhand who was employed to be a star of the present in 2015 for Season 3, on the age of 23.
Emile claims he was instructed the present was like a documentary … solely to seek out out it was a salacious actuality TV drama. He claims he was primarily manipulated into embarrassing eventualities.
He claims producers pressured him right into a pretend romantic storyline together with his castmate Raquel “Rocky” Dakota, inspired heavy consuming, and orchestrated sexually charged encounters and humiliating pranks.
As well as, Emile claims the producers edited the footage in a “highly misleading manner to craft a false, defamatory portrayal” of him to make him “immature, incompetent, and sexually aggressive.”
Emile says he was blacklisted from the yachting business after the present aired. He mentioned the present induced him to endure extreme psychological trauma from the betrayal and public humiliation, claiming he was recognized with “PTSD, anxiety, and depression directly linked to the show experience.”
The producers scoff on the lawsuit … they are saying many of the claims have been introduced previous the statute of limitations, and are “unsupported by any believable factual allegations.” They also argue they have a First Amendment right to “form and convey their inventive works” by casting and modifying, and so they cannot use the courts to limit their means to take action.
