For those who do not know, Tyler Perry, one of the first people to lend Meghan Markle and her husband, Prince Harry, a place to stay during his intial touch in Los Angeles, has been accused of sexual assault.
The demand requires more than $ 260 million of the star, and has been presented by an actor named Derek Dixon.
The two have previously worked together in the Perry program, The oval.
The accusation:
The accusation states that there was “a sustained pattern of sexual harassment in the workplace, assault and reprisals perpetrated by Tyler Perry” where sexual advances of Quid Pro quo were sought.
He also accused the star of promising “professional progress and creative opportunities”, but that saw Perry allegedly “submit to growing sexual harassment, aggression and aggression, and professional reprisals when Mr. Dixon did not correspond to the unwanted advances of Mr. Perry.”
Tyler Perry, Derek Dixon’s History & Timeline of Assault:
2019:
The duo sometimes gathered around 2019, through an event planning company that Perry hired for the Tyle Perry Studios opening party.
Dixon’s role at that time implied frequent and direct communication with the star, which led them to exchange phone numbers, as well as ‘goals’ conversations in life.
Finally, Dixon states that he was chosen in Perry’s program Relentless But that was where the “strange and tireless” messages began.
2020:
Fast advance until 2020, in January, Dixon said he was called to Perry’s house in Douglasville County, Georgia, and alcoholic beverages were treated in the middle of a “friendly” conversation.
It was that night that Dixon said the assault occurred because he was too drunk to leave, and Perry offered him a place in his guest room to sleep at night.
On the days they followed, Dixon admits that he avoided Perry’s calls, which became increasingly “aggressive” according to Good morning America (GMA) “Until Perry finally offered Dixon a part in a new program called” The Oval. “
“Dixon immediately understood that his job security depended on his ‘relationship’ with Perry,” he said in the lawsuit.
Thus, “from this moment on, Dixon worked with the constant fear of losing his job if Perry’s sexual harassment was not involved and endured.”
After an episode arrived that caused his character to receive four times, “indicating an apparent final of his role in the program and his work termination” according to the demand. He was called to the Perry trailer and subjected to an assault once again.
“As soon as Derek Dixon left the trailer after Perry’s violent assault, Dixon became very nauseous and extremely anxious for his work, careers and livelihoods.”
But that was not the only incident mentioned in the demand, according to the reports, another meeting of this type occurred on Perry’s private island in the Bahamas, during a cast party.
By 2020, Dixon states that he had begun to “feel exhausted” as a result of the “continuous pattern of sexual harassment.”
“The assaults and harassment began to demonstrate in their physical health and Mr. Dixon had no one to resort.”
2021:
After that he arrived in June 2021, where Perry again called Dixon to his house for the pilot of his program Losing it And an assault supposedly happened that time too
2023:
By 2023, Dixon admits in the demand that he had “put a certain distance between him and Perry
But the “harassment of Quid Pro quo and attempts to cover up the sexual aggression promising a show continued.”
2024:
By 2024, he affirms that “he understood” Perry’s reasons for this, since it was simply to prevent Dixon “to expose Tyler Perry’s dark side.”
Tyler Perry’s response to accusations:
Since then, Perry has also responded to the lawsuit, and is through his lawyer Matthew Boyd.
“This is an individual who approached Tyler Perry, so now it seems to be nothing but establish a scam,” said the lawyer. “But Tyler will not be shaken and we are sure that these statements made of harassment will fail.”
