“Cesspool”: ‘Vanderpump Rules’ Vet Faith Stowers Sues NBCUniversal, Bravo & Producers For Racist Harassment & Retaliation
deadline.comDetailing an environment of “racial slurs,” “sexual harassment and physical violence,” and retaliation, Vanderpump Rules’ Faith Stowers wants “her day in court” against NBCUniversal, Bravo and the reality TV series’ producers.
Seeking unspecified damages, Stowers’ legal action is being helmed by attorneys Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos. The litigating heavyweights have made spotlight the underbelly of the unscripted world and pummeling the networks and producers behind it a cottage industry of late.
Dense detailed, timely (Stowers is launching a new podcast series), and shedding light on Stowers allegedly being “violently assaulted” with a knife by castmate Lala Kent, today’s lawsuit is very much more of the same.
Revealing that former waitress Stowers was paid a paltry $5000 for her participation in the fourth season of VR starting in 2015 and virtually nothing afterwards, the eight-claim filing in LA Superior Court also describes how racial mistreatment and other apparent misconduct became the M/O of the show — and how NBCU and producers Evolution did allegedly nothing.
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