Lizzo's Lawsuit: A Timeline of the Allegations Against the Singer
glamour.comAugust 1, 2023: NBC News exclusively reports on filed in Los Angeles on behalf of three former tour dancers that names Lizzo (whose legal name is Melissa Vivianne Jefferson), her company, and her dance captain Shirlene Quigley as defendants.
The incidents in question seem to have mostly taken place during the first half of 2023. Specifically, the suit accuses Quigley of pressuring her dancers on religious matters and Lizzo of pressuring an uncomfortable dancer to touch a nude performer at an after-party.
There are also allegations of weight-shaming, unfair firings, and racially-biased attitudes.August 2, 2023: Others who have worked with Lizzo come forward in support of the dancers.
Director Sophia Nahli Allison, who was in 2019 briefly attached to a documentary about the singer, , calling her “arrogant, self-centered, and unkind.” (An HBOMax documentary, Love, Lizzo, eventually dropped in 2022, and was directed by Doug Pray.)Dancer Courtney Hollinquest posts a link to an article about the suit to her Instagram Stories and writes, “For clarification, I’m not apart of the lawsuit—but this was very much my experience in my time there… Big shoutout to the dancers who had the courage to bring this to light,” per .
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