A former longtime common on Tyler Perry‘s White Home drama The Oval is accusing the Madea star of sexual assault, sexual harassment and retaliation in a $260 million lawsuit — claims that Perry vehemently denies.
“Utilizing his affect, Mr. Perry supplied weak males with performing positions, roles, present contracts, vehicles, and cash,” a lawyer for Derek Dixon says of Perry’s M.O. to their consumer and others in the 10-claim criticism filed in L.A. Superior Courtroom on June 13. “As soon as the thing of his need was hooked, Tyler Perry would then put them in concern of dropping all of it except they engaged in Mr. Perry’s perverted need for sexual gratification. Mr. Perry would simply ‘kill off’ a personality in a present of an actor who did not indulge Perry’s sexual fantasies.”
Invoking the names of “Harvey Weinstein, Invoice Cosby, R. Kelly, Sean ‘P-Diddy’ Combs, Kevin Spacey, Roger Ailes, and lots of others within the business,” Dixon’s motion particulars how allegedly “on a number of events, Mr. Perry sexually assaulted Mr. Dixon, together with one occasion the place he forcibly pulled off Mr. Dixon’s clothes, groped his buttocks, and tried to drive himself on Dixon.”
In response, Perry’s representatives name BS on Dixon and his accusations.
“That is a person who bought near Tyler Perry for what now seems to be nothing greater than organising a rip-off,” says Matthew Boyd, legal professional for the mogul and his TPS Manufacturing Providers, LLC. “However Tyler is not going to be shaken down and we’re assured these fabricated claims of harassment will fail.”
Such claims of harassment by Dixon are very particular and widespread on the similar time, it ought to be famous.
As an illustration, at one level Dixon says Perry promised the actor that he had “greenlit” the “pilot that Perry knew Mr. Dixon had desperately needed to supply. The Oval vet says that even with a name from one pf Perry’s attorneys affirming the pilot was transferring forward, the promise turned out to be empty. In a format paying homage to the Blake Energetic and Justin Baldoni lawsuits, textual content messages, some extra suggestive than others, pepper the 46-page submitting from L.A. legal professional Jonathan J. Delshad. Included is at the very least one from an October 2020 journey the 2 and others took to the Bahamas the place Perry allegedly bought loaded and assaulted Dixon, once more.
The submitting additionally notes that Perry supposedly repeatedly threatened “that if Dixon ignored Perry or failed to have interaction with the sexual innuendos, Dixon’s character would ‘die’ within the subsequent season.” It goes on so as to add: “Certainly, Dixon’s character ‘Dale’ was shot 4 instances within the chest on the finish of his first season on The Oval and Perry at all times held this over Mr. Dixon’s head, implying that “Dale” would survive if Dixon stored Perry “completely satisfied.’”
In truth, based on Dixon, after he complained about Perry’s alleged misconduct and “Defendants didn’t make any investigation into the criticism and didn’t take any steps to stop additional harassment from occurring,” he “needed to stop his job engaged on the final season of The Oval.” A call that Dixon and his attorneys declare price him round $400,000 in misplaced wages.
“Dixon didn’t wish to be sexually harassed or be positioned in peril of a sexual assault once more,” the submitting states as his cause for leaving the present and giving up the cash.
The Oval debuted on October 23, 2019 on BET, and noticed its sixth season kick off on January 25 this yr. A Ruthless spinoff premiered on BET+ on March 19, 2020.
