Megan Thee Stallion’s former cameraman Emilio Garcia, who’s suing the rapper for creating a hostile work environment along with various other labor and wage violations, included the accusation in the suit that the rapper had sex with someone in a vehicle they were sharing as Garcia was trapped inside. However, Garcia’s own statement in the lawsuit implies that the rap star was not aware that he was in the car at the time.
It had been reported this week in an exclusive interview with Garcia for NBC News that he had been “forced” to watch the star have sex while “trapped” in a moving vehicle. Garcia told the outlet, “I felt uncomfortable,” in the car, “I was kind of frozen, and I was shocked at kind of just the overall audacity to do this right, right beside me.” It was then reported that Megan Thee Stallion told Garcia, “Don’t ever discuss what you saw,” the next day.
However, an important point in Garcia’s story that could get lost in translation is that “[Megan Thee Stallion] inquired whether [Garcia] was in the SUV the previous night,” of the incident in question, the court docs say, after which “[Garcia] confirmed that he was.”
Garcia’s attorney Ronald L. Zambrano tells The Daily Beast that he sees the rapper asking Garcia if he was in the vehicle as an admission that she had been aware. Zambrano says her ignorance is “inconsistent with her asking him the next morning.”
“You think she just guessed correctly to ask the one person that was there? Did she go around asking everybody in her camp if they happen to be in the car while she was having sex that night?” Zambrano adds. “She remembered and she took steps to try to intimidate him to stay quiet.”
Even though the car sex incident has become a centerpiece in the coverage of Garcia’s suit, the rapper’s lawyer Alex Spiro tells The Daily Beast, “This is an employment claim for money—with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her.” Upon review, the list of complaints for damages in the suit do not include any mention sexual harassment, but do include hostile work environment harassment and eight labor and business code violations having to do with wages to which Garcia alleges he is entitled.
Garcia uses the sex anecdote in the suit to demonstrate his “intolerable working conditions” claims, which include allegations that the rapper called him a “fat bitch” and told him to spit his food out while he was eating. The crux of the complaint is that Garcia says he was fired “in retaliation for his complaints of wage and hour violations,” after he “confided” in the rapper’s former makeup artist that he was considering quitting.
Garcia also cites Megan Thee Stallion’s hiring of another cameraman as a reason he considered quitting, before he was informed by the star’s team that she would no longer be needing his services.
It’s probably fair to say that without the car sex accusation, the wage suit might not have gotten as much coverage, potentially validating Spiro’s claim that the story was meant to “embarrass” the rapper. But as Spiro tells The Daily Beast, “We will deal with this in court.”
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