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An actor who worked on the television drama created by Tyler Perry The oval has filed a legal action alleging that Perry has taken advantage of his power of industry for assault and harass him sexually on several occasions while keeping him silent.
The trial brought by the Los Angeles Superior Court by actor Derek Dixon, which appeared in 85 episodes of the BET series, asks at least $ 260 million in damages.
“Mr. Perry has taken up his success and his power and used his considerable influence in the entertainment industry to create a coercive and sexually operating dynamic with Mr. Dixon – initially promising him the progress of the career and creative opportunities, such as the production of his pilot and the casting in his program, would only submit him to the climbing of sexual harassment, assault and battery and reprisals.”
The trial was filed on Friday and Tuesday for the first time by TMZ. Perry’s lawyer Matthew Boyd said his allegations were false.
“He is a person who approached Tyler Perry for what seems to be only the creation of a scam,” said Boyd in a statement on Tuesday.
“But Tyler will not be shaken, and we are convinced that these fabricated harassment claims will fail.”
The trial indicates that Perry noticed for the first time Dixon in 2019, when Dixon was one of the event staff at a Perry party, and then offered him a hearing. Dixon would first appear in a small role in the Perry series Ruthless Before obtaining the biggest role in political drama The oval.
Perry quickly started sending unwanted sex SMS to Dixon, according to the trial, which includes screenshots of several of them. “What will it take to make you have sex without guilt?” One of the messages said.
The trial indicates that Perry offered Dixon an increasingly important role in the show as his sexual advances have become more aggressive.
The actor says he tried to remain friendly while keeping borders.
“Dixon did his best feet on the sexual assault by Mr. Perry while keeping the good side of Mr. Perry,” said the trial.
“Mr. Perry clearly told Dixon that if Dixon was unaware of Perry or did not engage with sexual innuendos, the character of Dixon” would die “.”
The trial says that Perry finally sexually assaulted Dixon on “several occasions”, including a case where he “forcibly removed Mr. Dixon’s clothes, groped his buttocks and tried to force himself to Dixon.”
Dixon clearly said to Perry “no”, but was initially ignored until he was able to defuse the situation and change the subject, according to the trial. The next day, Perry apologized and told Dixon that he would work with Dixon on a Dixon television pilot sought to produce.
Dixon then received an increase that the trial suggests is part of an attempt to keep it silent. He said that the fear of his character by dying maintained him silent as expected.
Perry also produced and bought rights on the pilot, called LoseBut the trial alleys that Perry did not intend to sell the show and used it only for the lever effect on Dixon.
The trial describes several other attacks, including one where Dixon stayed in a friend’s house in Perry’s house when Perry went up to bed with him without guest and began to grop him, according to the trial.
Dixon would end up going from Atlanta, which houses the Perry production studio in Los Angeles to distance between the two.
Dixon in 2024 filed a complaint with the Equality Employment Committee, the Federal Agency intended to apply the Discrimination and Harassment Act to the workplace. When this did not lead to any action by producers of the show, he stopped.
The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually abused unless they manifest themselves publicly as Dixon.
The oval is one of the many leaders of the Product television series, written by and produced by Perry, 55, who has become known as creator and star of the Madea Films and has since built a large production empire on television and films.
As an actor, he also appeared in the movies Gone Girl And Don’t look up.
