Emilio Garcia, a former cameraman for rapper Megan Thee Stallion, filed a lawsuit against the musician in Los Angeles County Tuesday, saying that he was subjected to a hostile work environment and harassment. According to court documents, Garcia alleged that Megan (whose legal name is Megan Pete) forced him to watch her have sex with another woman, then bullied him in the aftermath.
According to the lawsuit, on or around June 2022 in Ibiza, Spain, Garcia was riding in an SUV with Megan and three other women after a night out. Megan and one of the women “suddenly” began having sex “right beside” Garcia, who “could not get out of the car as it was both moving and he was in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country.” According to the complaint, he was “embarrassed, mortified, and offended throughout the whole ordeal.”
He claims that the next day, he was allegedly told by Megan not to discuss what he’d seen, and later during the trip he was on the receiving end of fat-shaming comments such as “spit your food out,” “you don’t need to be eating,” and “fat bitch.”
The lawsuit details nine complaints against Megan, her touring business entity, Hot Girl Touring LLC, and her label, Roc Nation, including harassment and several wage and labor law violations. The complaint alleges that Garcia was not compensated appropriately for the hours he worked, which the suit describes as “essentially…all waking hours of a day,” in a role that the suit claims misclassified him as an independent contractor and denied him overtime pay and meal breaks.
“More than once, Stallion interrupted Plaintiff during dinner and demanded that he immediately shift his focus to assist with her TikTok creative ideas—i.e., Plaintiff stepped away from dinner and worked on the phone in a quiet space of a given restaurant,” one part of the complaint reads.
No court date has been set yet for the suit, in which Garcia has requested a jury trial.
Megan is represented by Miami-based attorney Alex Spiro, who has also represented high-powered celebrities like Jay-Z, Elon Musk, and Alec Baldwin.
In a statement to Vanity Fair, Spiro said, “This is an employment claim for money—with no sexual harassment claim filed and with salacious accusations to attempt to embarrass her. We will deal with this in court.”
Garcia’s legal representative of record did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair’s request for comment.
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