Megan Thee Stallion‘s lawyer is pushing back against the recent harassment allegations made against her in a lawsuit by one of her former photographers.
In a statement shared with Page Six on Tuesday (April 23), Alex Spiro dismissed the suit as a money grab and deemed it an attempt to defame his client.
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“This is an employment claim for money — with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her,” he said. “We will deal with this in court.”
The case, which was filed earlier that same day, alleges that plaintiff Emilio Garcia once witnessed the Houston Hottie having sex with another woman in a moving car while they were traveling in Ibiza.
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Per court documents obtained by HipHopDX: “The following day, STALLION inquired whether PLAINTIFF was in the SUV the previous night. PLAINTIFF confirmed that he was in the SUV. Subsequently, STALLION instructed, ‘Don’t ever discuss what you saw.’ STALLION berated and directed her fat-shaming comments towards PLAINTIFF such as ‘Fat Bitch,’ ‘Spit your food out,’ and that ‘You don’t need to be eating.’”
It is important to note that Garcia is suing under California law that states employees who work over a certain number of hours can not be classified as independent contractors.
To that point, the legal paperwork reads: “From the inception of his employment, PLAINTIFF GARCIA was misclassified as an Independent Contractor while working as a Personal Cameraman to DEFENDANT STALLION. PLAINTIFF has been treated as independent contractor by ROC NATION and STALLION ENTERTAINMENT so that he was effectively denied any of the protections an employee would have under California law.”
According to a report by NBC News, Garcia has revealed that his claims are based on harassment that was “so severe or pervasive” that it created a hostile work environment, making his working conditions “intolerable.” He is suing for punitive damages, attorney’s costs, unpaid wages plus interest on the unpaid wages, unpaid overtime wages and other employee benefits at the legal rate.
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“I felt uncomfortable. I was kind of frozen, and I was shocked. At kind of just be the overall audacity to do this right, right beside me,” he said.
The photographer, who worked for Meg from 2019 until 2023, also alleges that he was threatened, fat-shamed and berated by her into silence.
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He also claims that he was thinking of quitting, but that he was ultimately terminated by the 29-year-old’s management company Roc Nation the night before an assignment, which prompted him to seek legal representation.
