Tyler Perry’s $ 260 Million Lawsuit: WHO IS DEREK DIXON?

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Filmmaker and Actor Tyler Perry Was Hit A $ 260 Million Sexual-Assault and Harassment Lawsuit on June 13. Perry-The Man Behind the Popular Franchise MadeaLike Shows Duplicity and Sistas, and A SLEW OF NETFLIX Originals – Is Being Suded by Actor Derek Dixon. The two first met dixon workhed at the opening party for Tyler Perry Studios. In his lawsuit, dixon alleges that perry encougoed Him to try his hand at acting, offering hym tv roles in Ruthless and late The Oval. Dixon Accepted the Jobs but is alleging that durying his emploment, perry sexually harassed Him, groped hym, and then retaliated against Him we did not reciprocate “unwanten Advances,” According to the Complint. Perry, who is reportly Worth $ 1.4 Billion, Said Through his attorney that he let someone get to him but that it is consider the Relationship was “Nothing more than setting up a scam.”

Dixon, Who Became Aa Series Regular On Perry’s Show The OvalIs Sing For Sexual and Work Harassment Along With Sexual Battery and Sexual Assault as Well as Other Claims and Seeking $ 260 Million in Damages, Accounting to His 46-Page Lawsuit Filed in Los Angeles Earlier This Month. Dixon Sayys Perry First Took Interest in Him in September 2019 while he was working at Perry’s Studio Party. When Dixon Said He Wanted to Be An Actor, Perry Encouneded Him and Later Cast Him in Two Shows on Bet and Bet+: The Oval and Ruthlessan Oval Spinoff. In it, he played “a gay, homaess, and desperate store clerk who had to go with one of the Other Characters for A Place to Stay.”

Dixon alleges that once in his employ, perry used to “Considerable influence in the entertainment industry to create a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic.” Dixon claims that what a promise of “Career Advancement and Creative Opportunities, Such as Production His Pilot and Casting Him Show” Became A Place of “Sexual Harassment, Assault and Battery, and Professional Retaliation Wen Dixon Unwanten Advance. ” Dixon is Also Suing Tyler Perry Studios Production Services.

Dixon alleges that on one occision, he was urged to stay the night at Perry’s House after he has had too to drink. Without Pajamas, Dixon Said He Went to Sleep in His Underwear. That night, he alleges that perry snuck into his bed and started rubbing his body dixon’s inner thigh. Dixon says he immediately jumped out of bed, told perry he “wasn’t sexual,” and alleges that perry told to turn around so he is naked in his underwear.

In another instance at Perry’s House, Dixon Alleges Perry Encoured Him to Try a Weight Monitor in the Guest Bedroom, but needed to undress for the work. AFTER DIXON WAS UNDSHESSED, he alleges perry Pulled his underwear down and sexually groped his buttocks and told Him to “relax” and to “just let it open,” Accounting to the Complaint. Dixon clalimed he diffed by the situation by telling perry he couldn’t will sexual Because he was hungry. When perry left to the Order Food, Dixon Claims he Locked Himself in the Bathroom.

Dixon also alleges that perry repeatedly talked to Him About Sex and Asked Him About His Sexual Preferences. He claims he worked with the Constant Fear of LoSing his Job if he did not engage with and endure Perry’s sexual harassment, accorting to the Complaint.

In one message, perry al The alledly stored, “What is going to take you to have guiltless sex? Have y’all found that yet in therapy?” Cry dixon told Him that he was ino sex, perry al The alledly texted Him: “I was to say that you would love you and make you. Complaint. Perry al The Also Texted, “I haven’t been touched in months,” dixon states in his complaint.

Through his attorney, Matthew Boyd, Perry released a staff saying that while while dixon and perry were close, it appears “appears to be not. Boyd Said Perry Will “Not Be Shaken Down” and that they are “confident these fabricated Classment Will Fail.”

Dixon hasn’t posted anything on social media about the laws or perry’s reaction, but his lawyer, Jonathan J. Delshad, Shared the Following Stament: “I can only assumers perry’s attorney did not booter the text mesages by Tyler Perry. Knee-Jerk Comments Made Without Looking at the Evidance is a Way to Enable Further Sexual Harassment. “