Lizzo Former Dancers Drop Fats-Shaming Allegations

Lizzo has one much less allegation to cope with in her ongoing authorized battle together with her former dancers.

The singer is presently embroiled in a authorized struggle towards 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 all them was fired by Lizzo.

Lizzo just lately scored a win in her ongoing lawsuit towards 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 a variety 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 towards Lizzo, per TMZ.

Following the ruling, Lizzo’s powerhouse legal professional, Marty Singer, and his associate, Melissa Y. Glass, stated it was a serious a part of the sexual harassment lawsuit, however it had at all times lacked advantage.

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

In addition they declare that the decide 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 deal with the opposite claims from the dancers.

Nevertheless,  through her legal professionals, 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 legal professional took a swipe at Lizzo over the failure of her particular movement to dismiss the case.

“We’re sustaining that Choose Epstein was appropriate 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’ legal professional, Ronald Zambrano, informed TMZ.

He added, “Of the couple of claims Choose Epstein did dismiss, the plaintiffs have taken a thought of strategy to depart that be. One would hope to see the identical degree of mental honesty and impartial evaluation from the defendants, however that hasn’t been the case to date, 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.

Nevertheless, 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 a variety of tough points. And the courts are rightfully cautious of injecting themselves into the artistic course of,” Epstein stated in his 34-page ruling on the time, per IQ Journal. “Discovering the best steadiness is usually no straightforward process, 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 stated she turned “very paranoid and remoted” from sharing intimate particulars together 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 do this anymore,” she stated within the July situation of Girls’s Well being.

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