Tyler Perry was accused of sexual assault and harassment by the actor who worked in his television series

A work actor on TV drama created by Tyler Perry Oval He claimed a lawsuit claiming that Perry benefited from his industrial authority over the sexual assault repeatedly and harassed him while keeping him calm.

The lawsuit filed in the Los Angeles Supreme Court by actor Derek Dixon, who appeared in 85 episodes of the BET series, seeks at least $ 260 million as compensation.

“Mr. Perry took his success and strength and used his great influence in the entertainment industry to create forced dynamic, sexually exploitative with Mr. Dixon – he initially promised his job progress and creative opportunities, such as the production of his pilot and his delivery in his presentation, only to clarify him for escalating sexual harassment, assault, battery, and professional actor,” says laws.

The lawsuit was filed on Friday and TMZ was informed on Tuesday for the first time. Perry’s lawyer Matthew Boyd said her allegations are wrong.

“This is a person who is close to Tyler Perry, what seems more now than preparing a fraud,” Boyd said in a statement on Tuesday.

“But Tyler will not shake, and we are confident that these claims are fabricated to harass.”

The lawsuit says that Perry first noticed Dickson in 2019, when Dixon was part of the event employees at the Perry party, and later presented a test. Dixon will appear for the first time in a small role in the Perry series inexorable Before obtaining the biggest role in political drama Oval.

Perry soon began sending unwanted sexual messages to Dixon, according to the lawsuit, which includes footage of many of them. “What will have sex without guilt?” One of the messages says.

The lawsuit says that Perry has offered Dixon an increasingly prominent role in the show as his sexual progress has become more aggressive.

The actor says he tried to remain friendly while maintaining the border.

“Dickson has done his best to receive Mr. Perry’s sexual aggression while maintaining the good side of Mr. Perry,” the lawsuit says.

“Mr. Perry Dixon explained that if Dixon Perry ignores or fails to deal with sexual hints, Dixon” dies. “

The lawsuit says that Perry eventually attacked Dixon sexually on “multiple occasions”, including an example, as he forcibly “withdrawn the clothes of Mr. Dixon, touched the buttocks, and tried to force himself to Dixon.”

Dickson Buri Perry was clearly told “No”, but he was initially ignored until he was able to cancel the position of the situation and change the issue, according to the case. The next day, Perry apologized, and Dixon told that he would work with Dixon on a TV pilot that Dixon was seeking to produce.

Dickson later received an increase in the case indicating that it is part of an attempt to keep it calm. He said that the fear of his death, which he dies kept calm as intended.

Perry also produced and bought the rights of the pilot, and called LossBut the lawsuit claims that Perry had no intention to sell the offer and was only using it to benefit from Dixon.

The lawsuit describes many other attacks, including one as Dixon was staying in a guest room in Perry’s house when Perry went up to bed with him without calling and began to stick to him, as the case claims.

Dixon will eventually move from Atlanta, the home of the Perry Production Studio, to Los Angeles to put the distance between the two.

In 2024, Dixon filed a complaint with the Equal Opportunities Committee, and the federal agency aims to impose the law of discrimination and harassment in the workplace. When this does not lead to any procedure from the display producers, resign.

The Associated Press usually does not use people who say they have been sexually abused unless they publicly applied as Dickson did.

Oval It is one of the many executive TV series that it produced, written by Perry, who is 55 years old, which became known for the first time as a creator and a star physically Films have since built a major production empire on television and films.

As an actor, he also appeared in movies A girl went and Do not look.