Tyler Perry Sued for $260 Million by ‘The Oval’ Star Accusing Him of Sexual Harassment
Tyler Perry is going through a sexual harassment and assault lawsuit from an actor who labored on his reveals.
Derek Dixon—who appeared in BET’s Ruthless and The Oval—is suing the director for $260 million, alleging in court docket paperwork obtained by E! Information that Perry “used his appreciable affect within the leisure trade to create a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic” between the 2.
“First, he provides aspiring actors the prospect of career-defining alternatives,” Dixon accused Perry in his lawsuit, which was filed the Superior Courtroom of California June 13. “Then, as soon as they’re in his skilled orbit, he makes use of the burden of his affect to ensnare them, positioning their success as contingent on assembly his calls for, in a quid professional quo sexual compromise.”
E! Information has reached out to Perry’s rep for remark however hasn’t heard again. Nonetheless, his lawyer Matthew Boyd instructed People in a press release about Dixon’s lawsuit, “That is a person who bought near Tyler Perry for what now seems to be nothing greater than establishing a rip-off. However Tyler won’t be shaken down and we’re assured these fabricated claims of harassment will fail.”