Leisure mogul Tyler Perry has been named in a $260 million lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles, claiming he sexually harassed an actor.
Actor Derek Dixon stated in authorized docs reviewed by Day by day Mail that Perry, 55, aggressively tried to ascertain an sexual dynamic between them when he appeared on two of Perry’s packages: Ruthless and The Oval.
Perry ‘won’t be shaken down and we’re assured these fabricated claims of harassment will fail,’ his lawyer Matthew Boyd informed Folks.
Boyd stated of Dixon: ‘That is a person who obtained near Tyler Perry for what now seems to be nothing greater than organising a rip-off.’
Day by day Mail has reached out to reps for Perry for additional touch upon the story.
Leisure mogul Tyler Perry, 55, has been named in a $260 million lawsuit claiming he sexually harassed an actor. Pictured June 9 in LA on the BET Awards
Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Perry posed in LA at a December 4, 2024 occasion
A authorized grievance filed in opposition to Perry by Dixon’s group states that Perry at first promised the actor ‘profession development and artistic alternatives.’
They included commitments such ‘as producing his pilot and casting him in his present,’ in response to authorized docs.
Perry topic Dixon ‘to escalating sexual harassment, assault and battery, {and professional} retaliation when [Dixon] didn’t reciprocate Mr. Perry’s undesirable advances.’
Dixon in authorized docs stated he first crossed paths with Perry in September of 2019 at his Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.
Dixon stated within the authorized grievance that after he first met the mogul at a celebration for one in all Perry’s reveals, the New Orleans-born star started to ship him textual content messages with sexually-suggestive themes.
Dixon stated within the authorized grievance that Perry seemed to ascertain ‘a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic’ between them when he labored on the set of The Oval and Ruthless, portraying a personality by the title of Dale.
Dixon stated Perry provided to carve out a roll for him that might change his life, starting in November of 2019 with a job within the collection Ruthless.
Dixon stated that in January of 2020, he was sexually assaulted by Perry on the leisure mogul’s dwelling, in response to the authorized grievance.
Actor Derek Dixon stated that he initially crossed paths with the 55-year-old leisure mogul in September of 2019
Dixon stated within the authorized grievance that Perry seemed to ascertain ‘a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic’ between them when he labored on the units of Perry’s reveals
In February 2020, Dixon informed the courtroom, Perry provided him a recurring position on the present The Oval.
Dixon stated Perry displayed his huge energy by leaving his character Dale with an unknown destiny to conclude The Oval’s first season.
‘Mr. Perry made it clear to Dixon that if Dixon ignored Perry or failed to interact with the sexual innuendos, Dixon’s character would ‘die’ within the subsequent season,’ the actor’s authorized grievance learn.
Perry topic Dixon to ‘escalating sexual harassment, assault and battery, {and professional} retaliation when Mr. Dixon didn’t reciprocate Mr. Perry’s undesirable advances,’ the authorized grievance said.
In case you or somebody you already know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the Nationwide Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
