Megan Thee Stallion has addressed claims in a harassment lawsuit that she had lesbian sex in front of her former photographer.
In a new filing obtained, the Houston rapper’s lawyers denied the allegation and slammed the lawsuit as “frivolous,” according to legal reporter Meghann Cuniff.
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The 18-page filing counters the claims made by Emilio Garcia last month after he accused Megan of harassment and creating a hostile work environment.
The rapper’s legal team claims that Garcia is a “con artist” who is “manipulating the judicial system to act as his publicist and bullhorn.”
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They add: “Plaintiff took a run of the mill wage and labor dispute governed by New York law under the terms of his contract and trumped it up with sensationalist claims of sex, debauchery, and workplace harassment for the sole purpose of seeking attention for his own middling amateur artist career and to tarnish the reputation of [Megan].”
The filing from Megan’s attorneys also includes numerous invoices and payment records, as well as posts from Garcia’s Instagram that place him in Houston, as proof that the lawsuit should be thrown out.
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They also accuse Garcia of listing Meg’s management company Roc Nation as a “sham defendant” because they have offices in California, while Megan lives in Florida.
Roc Nation have also denied having any “ownership” or “affiliation” with Megan’s companies, nor did they ever employ Garcia in any capacity.
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In response, Emilio Garcia’s attorney Ron Zambrano said in a statement to HipHopDX: “This is just another attempt by another celebrity to shame the victim and shift blame from their own abhorrent behavior.
“In this case, Megan Thee Stallion never brought up any issues with Emilio accusing him of falsifying his invoices and overcharging that supposedly forced her to fire him until after he sued.”
He added: “Her attorneys are correct, our client is angry, but not by being so-called exiled ‘from the inner circles of stardom.’ He’s angry because of how he was treated. Megan Thee Stallion broke the law. Period. No one is lying here but her.”
In his lawsuit, filed in April, Garcia argues that Megan improperly fired him from his job as a cameraman and owes him money for rest breaks and overtime.
He also claims he witnessed the “Savage” rapper having sex with another woman while they were traveling in a car in Ibiza.
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The following day, he claims, Megan told him to never discuss the incident with anyone else and “berated” him with fat-shaming comments such as “fat bitch,” “spit your food out” and “you don’t need to be eating.”
Megan’s attorneys had previously hit out at the filing, saying: “This is an employment claim for money — with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her. We will deal with this in court.”