{"id":214311,"date":"2026-01-02T06:14:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/will-smith-sued-by-tour-violinist-for-sexual-harassment-and-wrongful-termination\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T06:14:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T06:14:38","slug":"will-smith-sued-by-tour-violinist-for-sexual-harassment-and-wrongful-termination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/02\/will-smith-sued-by-tour-violinist-for-sexual-harassment-and-wrongful-termination\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Smith Sued by Tour Violinist for Sexual Harassment and Wrongful Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Will Smith is being sued by a tour violinist who alleges sexual harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination during his &#8220;Based on a True Story: 2025&#8221; Tour this past spring.<\/p>\n<p>The musician, Brian King Joseph, names Smith and Treyball Studios Management as defendants and\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RPhlZxwppS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RPhlZxwppS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Variety (@Variety) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Variety\/status\/2006884472915111997?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">January 2, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will Smith is being sued by a tour violinist who is accusing the star of sexual harassment, wrongful termination and retaliation.<\/p>\n<p>Brian King Joseph is accusing Smith of \u201cpredatory behavior\u201d and \u201cdeliberately grooming and priming Mr. Joseph for further sexual exploitation\u201d while on his \u201cBased on a True Story: 2025 Tour\u201d this past spring.<\/p>\n<p>More information at the source.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Variety\/status\/2006884472915111997?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Twitter<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/131709523.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will Smith is being sued by a tour violinist who alleges sexual harassment, retaliation, and wrongful termination during his &#8220;Based on a True Story: 2025&#8221; Tour this past spring. The musician, Brian King Joseph, names Smith and Treyball Studios Management as defendants and\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/RPhlZxwppS \u2014 Variety (@Variety) January 2, 2026 Will Smith is being sued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-214311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}