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Megan Thee Stallion is dealing with new legal troubles.
A erstwhile cameraman is suing the "Hot Girl Summer" vocalist for harassment and a hostile enactment environment, alleging that successful June 2022 helium was riding successful an SUV with Megan successful Ibiza, Spain, erstwhile she and different pistillate successful the car started having sex next to him, according to the suit obtained by E! News April 23.
According to the lawsuit, Emilio Garcia—who started moving with Megan successful 2018 and became her full-time idiosyncratic cameraman successful 2019—said that Megan told him aft the incident, "Don't ever sermon what you saw."
Emilio said successful the suit that, at the time, he "could not get retired of the car arsenic it was some moving and helium was successful the mediate of obscurity successful a overseas country" and that helium "was embarrassed, mortified and offended passim the full ordeal."
Emilio's suit besides alleges that Megan (real name Megan Pete) began shaming him afterwards, calling him a "Fat b---h," telling him to "spit your nutrient out" and that "you don't request to beryllium eating."
Her lawyer Alex Spiro told E! News on April 23 that their squad is readying to "deal with this successful court."
"This is an employment assertion for money," the lawyer said, "with nary intersexual harassment assertion filed and with salacious accusations to effort to embarrass her."
Aside from the alleged harassment pursuing the trip, Emilio said in the lawsuit that during his clip with the "HISS" singer, he "was forced to instrumentality connected a myriad of duties and enactment overmuch longer hours." Specifically, helium said helium worked much than 50 hours "under the adjacent scrutiny and explicit discretion of Stallion," who would interaction him "at each hours, directing him to brainstorm TikTok videos" arsenic good arsenic edit contented helium had not shot.
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Additionally, his suit claims that the "harassment was truthful terrible oregon pervasive" that it created "a hostile, abusive enactment environment" and made his enactment conditions "intolerable."
As a effect of his presumption with Megan, 29, Emilio alleges he suffered from "substantial losses in earnings, different employment benefits, carnal injuries, carnal sickness, arsenic good arsenic emotional distress" and much fees, on apical of enduring "a barrage of relentless intersexual and fat-shaming comments plunging him into profound affectional distress."
Emilio said helium was suddenly let spell by Roc Nation—Megan's absorption company—the nighttime earlier a scheduled shoot successful June 2023.
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Overall, Emilio is hoping that his suit volition assistance bring consciousness to the difficulties of moving successful the amusement industry.
"What I learned passim the years is that, particularly coming from an from an bureau environment, is you know, there's nary HR section successful the amusement business," helium told NBC News in an interrogation published April 23. "So I conscionable truly conscionable privation to promote radical to advocator for themselves."
"Megan conscionable needs to wage our lawsuit what he's due, ain up to her behaviour and discontinue this benignant of intersexual harassment and abdominous shaming conduct," Emilio's attorney Ron Zambrano said successful a connection to NBC News. "Emilio should ne'er person been enactment successful a presumption of having to beryllium successful the conveyance with her portion she had enactment with different woman. 'Inappropriate' is putting it lightly. Exposing this behaviour to employees is decidedly illegal."
Emilio is seeking unpaid wages, arsenic good arsenic involvement connected the wages, restitution of paid wages, punitive damages and the costs helium has incurred, including lawyer fees and the outgo of the suit.
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