Megan Thee Stallion and Roc Nation are facing a lawsuit from a cameraman who claims he was forced to watch her have sex with a woman in a moving vehicle while she was on tour in Spain.
In a complaint filed Tuesday (April 23) in Los Angeles court, Emilio Garcia accused the superstar of subjecting him to a hostile work environment because of the alleged incident, which he says amounted to harassment that left him “ shamed, saddened and insulted.”
“After a night out, plaintiff Stallion and three other women were riding together in an SUV,” Garcia's attorneys write in the lawsuit, obtained by Advertising sign. “Suddenly, Stallion and one of the other women begin having sex next to the plaintiff. The plaintiff could not get out of the car as it was moving and was in the middle of nowhere in a foreign country.”
Garcia claims that the day after the incident – which reportedly happened in June 2022 near Ibiza, Spain – Megan told him: “Don't ever discuss what you saw.” He says she then “rejected him” and made “playfully embarrassing comments”.
In the months following the alleged incident, Garcia claims Roc Nation switched him from a monthly rate to a per assignment deal. He also says he “noticed a change in the way he was treated and saw a decrease in the number of bookings he received from Stallion.” In June 2023, he claims he was told “his services would no longer be required”.
In addition to the hostile workplace allegations, Garcia also claims that Megan and Roc Nation violated California wage and hour laws by failing to pay him in full for the “myriad” of work he did for the superstar as her personal cameraman: “On more than one occasion, Stallion interrupted plaintiff during dinner and demanded that she immediately shift her focus to help with TikTok's creative ideas.
Despite his status as an independent contractor, Garcia claims Megan essentially treated him like an employee. He says she repeatedly told him specifically that he was “not allowed to serve any other customer but herself.”
Specifically, Garcia is represented by the same lawyers (Neama Rahmani and Ronald Zambrano) who filed a high-profile hostile workplace case against Lizzo on behalf of three of her backup dancers. Like the new case, that earlier lawsuit also contains allegations that the workers were forced to witness sexual acts in a European country during an overseas tour.
A representative for Megan and Roc Nation did not immediately return a request for comment Tuesday. News of the lawsuit was first reported Tuesday by NBC News.
