{"id":452511,"date":"2026-09-03T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452511\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T20:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T20:22:10","slug":"lizzo-discrimination-and-harassment-lawsuit-tossed-out-by-federal-judge-in-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/452511\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo discrimination and harassment lawsuit tossed out by federal judge in Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (CNS) &#8212; A lawsuit in which a former wardrobe assistant sued singer-rapper Lizzo and her production company for alleged harassment and discrimination has been tossed by a federal judge in Los Angeles, according to court papers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">U.S. District Judge Fernando L. Aenlle-Rocha dismissed designer Asha Daniels&#8217; remaining claims on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Daniels, who designed pieces for Lizzo&#8217;s dancers during the singer&#8217;s 2023 tour, filed suit in September 2023 against Lizzo, Big Grrrl Touring and others who worked on the Special Tour. The stylist alleged sexual and racial harassment, disability discrimination, retaliation and a hostile work environment while working in the tour&#8217;s wardrobe department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lizzo was dropped as an individual defendant from the complaint two years ago, leaving her touring company as the sole defendant. The entertainer born Melissa Viviane Jefferson won the Record of the Year award at the 2023 Grammys for &#8220;About Damn Time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Among other accusations, Daniels claimed a wardrobe manager rolled a clothing rack over her foot and later shoved her, leaving her injured. She also described sexually explicit comments and images in the workplace and alleged that members of the wardrobe team made racist and fat-phobic remarks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Aenlle-Rocha wrote in a dismissal motion that the plaintiff &#8220;did not identify any conduct&#8221; that would &#8220;demonstrate general hostility to women in the workplace or disparate treatment of men and women.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Lizzo expressed relief that the lawsuit had been tossed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">&#8220;Today I am relieved to announce that I have won the case against me and my company Big Grrrl Touring,&#8221; she wrote Tuesday on Instagram. &#8220;All the ridiculous claims by a wardrobe assistant who worked on tour for less than 3 weeks (including a claim they broke an acrylic nail) have been dismissed.&#8221;<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 by City News Service, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (CNS) &#8212; A lawsuit in which a former wardrobe assistant sued singer-rapper Lizzo and her production&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":452512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[178804,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-452511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-178804","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/452512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}