Megan Thee Stallion won a small victory in her legal battle with her former personal photographer.
According to the legal filing, U.S. District Hernán D. Vera decided to transfer the lawsuit from California to New York where her legal team can strategize for a proper defense. New York is also the home base of Roc Nation.
In the same decision, Roc Nation’s request to have the case dismissed was denied. The ruling stated that the “forum selection clause of Emilio Garcia’s employment contract as Megan Thee Stallion’s photographer is enforceable.”
Back in April, Emilio Garcia filed the lawsuit against “Hot Girl Meg”, Roc Nation Megan, and Hot Girl Touring, LLC, accusing the “WAP” rapper of creating a toxic work environment. On one occasion, Garcia claimed that during a tour stop in Ibiza, Spain in June 2022, he saw Megan and an unnamed woman engaged in a sexual act inside a moving vehicle. He claimed that experience left him feeling “traumatized.”
In the suit, Megan allegedly told Garcia: “Don’t ever discuss what you saw” and fat-shamed him by calling him a “Fat bi*ch,” and also told him, “You don’t need to be eating.”
“I felt uncomfortable. I was kind of frozen, and I was shocked kind of just the overall audacity to do this right, right beside me,” Garcia shared with NBC News at the time of the filing of the lawsuit.
“Such harassment was so severe or pervasive that it altered the terms and conditions of Plaintiff’s employment, creating a hostile, abusive work environment and making his working conditions intolerable,” the suit read. “Said harassment was sufficiently extreme to amount to a change in the terms and conditions of Plaintiff’s employment.”
The suit also claims that Garcia was misclassified as a contractor rather than an employee.
Garcia is seeking more than six figures in punitive damages, attorney’s costs, unpaid wages plus interest on the unpaid wages, unpaid overtime wages, and other employee benefits at the legal rate.
Megan Thee Stallion has maintained her innocence and vowed to fight the accusations in court with legal counsel.
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