Lizzo Former Dancers Drop Fat-Shaming Allegations

Lizzo has one much less allegation to take care of in her ongoing authorized battle along with her former dancers.

The singer is at the moment embroiled in a authorized struggle in opposition to Arianna Davis, Noelle Rodriguez, and Crystal Williams, who accused her of sexual harassment and different claims.

The previous dancers have now chosen to drop their fat-shaming allegation after proof emerged that detailed why one in every of them was fired by Lizzo.

Lizzo lately scored a win in her ongoing lawsuit in opposition to a trio of dancers who have been in her employment between 2021 and spring 2023.

The dancers, Arianna Davis, Noelle Rodriguez, and Crystal Williams, claimed of their 2023 lawsuit that they have been subjected to quite a lot of office violations throughout their time with the singer.

These claims included sexual harassment, fats shaming, false imprisonment, and interference with potential financial benefit, amongst different allegations.

Now, in a stunning twist, the dancers have chosen to drop their fat-shaming claims from the quite a few allegations they filed in opposition to Lizzo, per TMZ.

Following the ruling, Lizzo’s powerhouse lawyer, Marty Singer, and his associate, Melissa Y. Glass, mentioned it was a significant a part of the sexual harassment lawsuit, however it had all the time lacked advantage.

The attorneys additionally revealed that over a dozen witnesses denied the validity of the allegations in sworn declarations to the court docket.

Additionally they declare that the choose concluded that Davis was fired after she made “an unauthorized recording of Lizzo in a dancer assembly and despatched it to Williams, who was not engaged on The Particular Tour.”

Regardless of the authorized win, Lizzo nonetheless has to take care of the opposite claims from the dancers.

Nonetheless,  by way of her attorneys, she has expressed confidence that “she is going to prevail within the case,” if it will definitely will get to a trial.

On the a part of the dancers, they appear to even be wanting ahead to a day in court docket, as their lawyer took a swipe at Lizzo over the failure of her particular movement to dismiss the case.

“We’re sustaining that Decide Epstein was right in his ruling denying Lizzo’s particular movement to strike the overwhelming majority of claims they attacked, together with false imprisonment and harassment,” the dancers’ lawyer, Ronald Zambrano, informed TMZ.

He added, “Of the couple of claims Decide Epstein did dismiss, the plaintiffs have taken a thought of strategy to depart that be. One would hope to see the identical stage of mental honesty and impartial evaluation from the defendants, however that hasn’t been the case to this point, and it is disappointing.”

Lizzo’s request for the lawsuit to be dismissed was filed beneath the anti-SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Towards Public Participation) statute.

Nonetheless, again in 2024, Epstein dominated that the request did not match utterly into the context of the statute.

He ended up dismissing just some a part of the go well with, whereas rejecting the singer’s request for a complete dismissal.

“This case presents quite a lot of tough points. And the courts are rightfully cautious of injecting themselves into the inventive course of,” Epstein mentioned in his 34-page ruling on the time, per IQ Journal. “Discovering the proper stability is usually no simple activity, and this case is an ideal instance.

He added, “It’s harmful for the court docket to weigh in, ham-fisted, into constitutionally protected exercise. However it’s equally harmful to show a blind eye to allegations of discrimination or different types of misconduct merely as a result of they happen in a speech-related surroundings.”

In the meantime, the authorized battle has additionally affected Lizzo emotionally and led to her altering her persona.

In July, she mentioned she turned “very paranoid and remoted” from sharing intimate particulars along with her shut circle.

“I used to stroll into glam and be like, ‘Oh, let me inform you about this loopy sh-t that occurred final night time!’ I could not try this anymore,” she mentioned within the July difficulty of Women’s Health.

Sooner or later, her paranoia obtained worse and led to her pushing everybody away.