Megan Thee Stallion’s attorneys label work harassment lawsuit as “sensationalist”
After a workplace harassment lawsuit was officially filed against Megan Thee Stallion last month, the Texan rapper’s attorneys have responded to the claims. Hitting back at the allegations, her attorney’s labelled the suit as being “sensationalist”, among various other statements denouncing the claims.
Stallion – stagename of Megan Pete – along with her management, Roc Nation, were accused of harassment and creating a hostile work environment by her former cameraman Emilio Garcia back in April. Garcia made numerous claims against Stallion, including that the rapper had made “sexual and fat-shaming comments” towards him, and that she would have sex in front of him during a Spanish tour in 2022.
It is Garcia’s belief that both Stallion and Roc Nation targeted him as a result of this harassment, eventually terminating their contract with the cameraman. At the time the lawsuit was filed, lawyers for the rapper, Mari Henderson and Alex Spiro, released a statement, saying, “This is an employment claim for money […] We will deal with this in court”.
Earlier this week, Henderson and Spiro expanded upon the lawsuit, delivering a scathing assault on Garcia’s claims against Stallion. In a statement, they argued that the suit “consists almost entirely of falsehoods, misrepresentations of fact, and outlandish claims that have no basis in fact or law and no merit”.
The lawyers then went on to denounce Garcia himself, labelling the cameraman “a con artist who is manipulating the judicial system to act as his publicist and bullhorn in a desperate attempt to boost his failed singing career while trying to tear down the successful career of Megan Thee Stallion”. Continuing, Henderson and Spiro theorised the reasons for Garcia’s claims, “Angry at the loss of this high-profile gig and his exile from the inner circles of stardom,” they said, “plaintiff [Garcia] filed a factually and legally frivolous complaint”.
According to the lawyers, “Plaintiff took a run-of-the-mill wage and labour dispute and trumped up his frivolous claims with sensationalist false allegations of sex, debauchery, and workplace harassment for the sole purpose of creating a media firestorm to tarnish the career and reputation of Ms. Pete”.
In response, Garcia’s attorney, Ron Zambrano, called the comments, “another attempt by another celebrity to shame the victim and shift blame from their own abhorrent behaviour”. Currently, Stallion’s legal team is seeking to relocate the case, originally filed in California, to federal court.