Tyler Perry sued for $260 million over actor’s sexual harassment claims

Entertainment tycoon Tyler Perry has been named in a $260 million lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles, claiming he sexually confused an actor. 

Actor Derek Dixon mentioned that he to start with crossed paths with the 55-year-old leisure tycoon in September of 2019, consistent with prison paperwork reviewed through People.

It used to be then he used to be slated to seem on one of the vital presentations. Perry produces, known as Ruthless and The Oval.

Attorneys for Perry denied all the allegations, calling the lawsuit ‘a rip-off;’ Perry legal professional Matthew Boyd mentioned Tyler ‘may not be shaken down and we’re assured those fabricated claims of harassment will fail.

Daily Mail has reached out to reps for Perry for additional remark at the tale. 

If you or anyone you realize has been sexually assaulted, please touch the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or move to rainn.org. 

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex and Perry posed in Los angeles a December 4, 2024 match 

A prison criticism filed towards Perry through Dixon’s group states that Perry in the beginning promised the actor ‘occupation development and inventive alternatives.’

They incorporated commitments such ‘as generating his pilot and casting him in his display,’ consistent with prison medical doctors.

Perry matter Dixon ‘to escalating sexual harassment, attack and battery, {and professional} retaliation when [Dixon] didn’t reciprocate Mr. Perry’s undesirable advances.’

Dixon in prison medical doctors mentioned he first crossed paths with Perry in 2019 at his Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta.

Dixon mentioned within the prison criticism that Perry appeared to determine ‘a coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic’ between them when he labored at the set of The Oval and Ruthless, portraying a personality through the identify of Dale.