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Tyler perry is suddenly suddenly sighed for $ 260 million over allegations of sexual assault and harassment by an actor who appeared on his bet The oval.
Weekly US had a legal proceedings filed by Derek Dixon Filed a legal case against Perry, 55, and Tyler Perry Studios in Los Angeles on Friday, June 13. (Tmz was the first to break the news on Tuesday, June 17.)
Dixon sues the filmmaker about the sexual harassment of Quid Pro Quo, a sexual battery, a sexual assault, deliberately causing emotional distress and revenge, among other things. Perry denied the allegations against him through his attorney on Tuesday.
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“This is an individual who came close to Tyler Perry for what now seems nothing more than setting up a scam,” Perry’s attorney, Matthew Boydsaid in a statement to ABC NEWS on Tuesday. “But Tyler will not be shaken down and we are confident that these false allegations of harassment will fail.”
Dixon claims in the suit he met Perry while working on an opening party for Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2019. He said he and Perry exchanged phone numbers and Also The director later cast him on the show Incomparable.
That’s when Dixon claims Perry started sending him “strange and unfortunate” messages. Dixon claims that Perry sexually assaulted him at Perry’s home in Douglasville County, Georgia, in January 2020, and subsequently offered him a regular role on The ovalThe long -standing bet drama set inside the White House.
Dixon claims that the fate of his character, Dale, and his continued employment relies on his acquisition to Perry’s alleged developments.
“Mr Perry made him clear to Dixon that if Dixon ignored Perry or failed to engage with the sexual innuendations, Dixon’s character would ‘die’ next season,” says the legal case. “Indeed, Dixon’s character ‘Dale’ was shot four times in the chest at the end of his first season on ‘The Oval,’ and Perry always held this over Mr. Dixon, suggesting that ‘Dale’ would survive if Dixon kept Perry ‘happy.’
Dixon claims two other events of sexual assault, including Perry “cropping Dixon’s head aggressively in sexual motion,” in 2020, including a cast tour in October 2020 to the Bahamas. He claims he attacked him again at Perry’s house in June 2021.
After experiencing a decline in his health, including “severe depression,” the actor says he moved to Los Angeles in January 2023 or around to “give him some distance” to Perry, per suit.
In the legal filing, Dixon also claims that Perry promised to produce a TV show created by Dixon and continue to make such promises even after he moved to Los Angeles. In 2024, Dixon says he realized that Perry only did so to stop him “from revealing the dark side of Tyler Perry,” says the suit.
“At this point, Mr Dixon has no comment. We think the complaint is speaking for himself,” Dixon attorneys told ABC News on Tuesday.
Weekly US have reached out to Perry representatives and bets for comments.
