Lizzo’s former backup dancers are urging an appeals court to reject the superstar’s free speech arguments and allow their blockbuster sexual harassment lawsuit to go to trial.

A Los Angeles judge ruled at the start of 2024 that three dancers on Lizzo’s Special tour can move forward with some of their legal claims against the star (Melissa Jefferson). While the judge dismissed a headline-grabbing claim about fat-shaming, he said there should be a trial on equally salacious allegations that Lizzo pushed her staff to touch nude performers and eat bananas out of their genitals while attending sex shows in Amsterdam and Paris.

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