{"id":33630,"date":"2023-08-23T17:14:24","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/lizzo-plans-to-sue-backup-dancers-taking-her-to-court-new-photos-presented-to-contradict-their-story\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T17:14:24","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T17:14:24","slug":"lizzo-plans-to-sue-backup-dancers-taking-her-to-court-new-photos-presented-to-contradict-their-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/23\/lizzo-plans-to-sue-backup-dancers-taking-her-to-court-new-photos-presented-to-contradict-their-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo Plans to Sue Backup Dancers Taking Her to Court, New Photos Presented to Contradict Their Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lizzo\/\" title=\"Lizzo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Lizzo<\/strong><\/a>\u2018s hitting back.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d superstar plans to sue the same backup dancers who are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/08\/01\/lizzo-faces-lawsuit-from-3-dancers-accused-of-sexual-harassment-hostile-work-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">taking her to court<\/a>, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/23\/lizzo-intends-sue-backup-dancers-suing-her-new-photos-accusers-topless-dancers-paris\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/23\/lizzo-intends-sue-backup-dancers-suing-her-new-photos-accusers-topless-dancers-paris\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TMZ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New photos appear to show her accusers having a great time backstage following some topless entertainment in Paris, France, taken about a month after the infamous banana incident in Amsterdam, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-1942917\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lizzo<\/strong>\u2018s attorney <strong>Marty Singer<\/strong> tells <em>TMZ<\/em> that <strong>Lizzo<\/strong>\u2018s accusers are seen \u201chappily carousing\u201d and \u201cgleefully reveling\u201d backstage with the performers from a topless cabaret show in Paris during <strong>Lizzo<\/strong>\u2018s tour on March 5, about a month after the February incident, during which they claim she pressured them to eat bananas from performers\u2019 vaginas.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arianna Davis<\/strong>, <strong>Crystal Williams<\/strong> and <strong>Noelle Rodriguez<\/strong> claim they were forced to go to the Paris topless show, but her attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/23\/lizzo-intends-sue-backup-dancers-suing-her-new-photos-accusers-topless-dancers-paris\/\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2023\/08\/23\/lizzo-intends-sue-backup-dancers-suing-her-new-photos-accusers-topless-dancers-paris\/&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">says the photos<\/a> contradict that, and they are seen \u201chappily cavorting backstage\u201d with the topless dancers.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer also says <strong>Lizzo<\/strong>\u2018s accusers chose to renew their contracts with <strong>Lizzo<\/strong> a few weeks after the Paris show, and returned for the third leg of her tour.<\/p>\n<p>The attorney for the accusers, <strong>Neama Rahmani<\/strong>, says of the photos: \u201cOf course, they wanted to keep their jobs. They had bills to pay just like everyone else but they finally had enough of the abuse. We stand by every claim in the lawsuit and look forward to trial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been hearing from other former employees sharing similar stories, and as seen in the<em> Los Angeles Times<\/em> article today about how<strong> Lizzo<\/strong> used intimate footage of her dancers without their approval in the 2022 HBO Max <em>Love Lizzo<\/em> documentary, we\u2019re seeing even more of a pattern of just how much <strong>Lizzo<\/strong> thinks of those who work for her. Clearly, not very much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lizzo<\/strong>\u2018s attorney says he has other \u201csubstantial evidence\u201d in addition to the photos and videos that \u201cprove the glaring contradictions between what the plaintiffs claim in their bogus lawsuit and what is actually proven by the facts,\u201d and calls the accusers\u2019 lawsuit a \u201csham.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several stars have also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/08\/03\/stars-speak-out-share-their-support-for-lizzo-following-her-statement-about-dancer-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">spoken out in defense of <strong>Lizzo<\/strong><\/a>, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/08\/17\/lizzos-big-grrrl-big-boiii-dancers-support-singer-amid-lawsuit-from-former-dancers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have a group of her dancers.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"postdata\">\n<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\t\t\tPhotos: Getty\t\t\t\t\tPosted to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/lizzo\/\" title=\"View all posts in Lizzo\" rel=\"category tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lizzo<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- sided poll widget --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- end sided poll widget --><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2023\/08\/23\/lizzo-plans-to-sue-backup-dancers-taking-her-to-court-new-photos-presented-to-contradict-their-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzo\u2018s hitting back. The 35-year-old \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d superstar plans to sue the same backup dancers who are taking her to court, via TMZ. New photos appear to show her accusers having a great time backstage following some topless entertainment in Paris, France, taken about a month after the infamous banana incident in Amsterdam, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-33630","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33630","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=33630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}