Arianna Davis is one of three dancers suing popular rapper Lizzo over alleged s*xual harassment and weight shaming.
The lawsuit has stunned the world, considering Lizzo’s well-known stance against being constantly body shamed by trolls online.
Many people are hence wondering who is Arianna Davis? And in this article, we answer this question.
Who Is Arianna Davis Dancer?
Arianna Davis, is an American dancing sensation from Indiana and one of three dancers suing Lizzo for s*xual harassment and weight shaming. She is 24 years old.
Arianna Davis has been grooving to beats since she was just two years old and her passion for dance has been unstoppable ever since.
The dancer is a proud graduate of Warren Central High School in Indianapolis and is currently pursuing her dreams in Music Production at Full Sail University.
In an interview with IndyStar last April, Arianna Davis couldn’t stop gushing about her love for dance.
She said, “Dance is like a language for me, you know? When words fail, dance speaks volumes. It’s my way of expressing myself when nothing else seems to work.”
During the COVID pandemic, Arianna got creative and started sharing some awesome dance moves on TikTok with her talent catching the attention of none other than Lizzo!
When Lizzo put out a casting call, Arianna decided to post a dance clip, and it went crazy viral. Lizzo even dueted with her on TikTok, which was just amazing.
When Lizzo launched her reality show “Watch Out For The Big Grrrls,” Arianna Davis was one of the selected dancers and that landed her a spot on Lizzo’s tour. For her appearance on the show, she bagged an Emmy when it won the award for Outstanding Competition Program in 2022.
Arianna’s journey with Lizzo didn’t end with just the tour. She also got to perform alongside the Good As Hell singer at the 2023 Brit Awards in February. How cool is that?
In an interview last April, Arianna couldn’t contain her excitement about working with Lizzo. She called Lizzo her role model and praised her for being just as genuine and kind-hearted in real life as she is on social media.
Things turned sour later, leading Arianna Davis and two others to sue Lizzo – but we’ll get to that later.
As for her own goals, Arianna wants to be a trailblazer in the industry. She’s all about spreading joy and kindness, something she believes the world could use more of.
Arianna Davis Lizzo dancer Instagram
Lizzo’s dancer suing her, Arianna Davis is on Instagram @aridavis5678
Arianna Davis has amassed close to 50k followers on the platform.
She shares her dance work and other things on her Instagram page.
Arianna Davis Lizzo
Arianna Davis is a dancer and choreographer who has worked with artists such as Beyoncé, Rihanna, and Ciara during her career.
Arianna Davis recently worked with Lizzo and is one of three performers suing the rapper for s*xual harassment and weight shaming.
The three dancers – Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez – accuse Lizzo and her dance captain, Shirlene Quigley, of making s*xually suggestive comments and gestures, touching the dancers without their consent, making disparaging remarks about the dancers’ weight and appearance and creating a hostile work environment that was hostile to people of color and people of faith.
Arianna Davis got her start in Lizzo’s crew after participating on ‘Watch Out for the Big Grrrls’, the dance competition show the singer hosts for Amazon, in 2021.
Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, according to Wikipedia, is an American reality television series in which 13 women compete to be dancers for singer Lizzo, who also hosts the show. It premiered on March 25, 2022 on Amazon Prime Video.
In April 2023, the series was renewed for a second season. And at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards, the series received six nominations and won three including one for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program.
Whilst the show has received mostly positive reviews, it appears behind the scenes Lizzo isn’t practising all that she preaches.
Three of her dancers including Arianna Davis have accused her of conduct which clearly goes against all she preaches for.
According to the lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles, Lizzo allegedly pressured one dancer to touch a n*de performer at a club in Amsterdam and subjected several dancers to an “excruciating” 12-hour audition after making false accusations that they drank while working.
Additionally, the suit alleges that Lizzo’s dance captain, Shirlene Quigley, pushed her Christian beliefs upon other performers and denigrated those who had premarital s*x, while also simulating oral s*x, sharing lewd sexual fantasies and discussing one performer’s virginity.
Lawyer for the plaintiffs, Ron Zambrano, names Lizzo, legal name Melissa Viviane Jefferson, her production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc and Quigley as defendants with claims including s*xual harassment, creation of a hostile work environment, false imprisonment and interference with prospective economic advantage.
“The stunning nature of how Lizzo and her management team treated their performers seems to go against everything Lizzo stands for publicly, while privately she weight-shames her dancers and demeans them in ways that are not only illegal but absolutely demoralizing,” lawyer for Arianna Davis and her two co-plaintiffs said in a statement.
For Arianna Davis, she alleges that at an Amsterdam club earlier this year, Lizzo allegedly “began inviting cast members to take turns touching the n*de performers, catching dildos launched from the performers’ v*ginas, and eating bananas protruding from the performers’ v*ginas”,
Lizzo allegedly pressured Arianna Davis to touch the n*de breasts of one performer, and began goading her on when she refused.
When Davis eventually acquiesced, the group burst into laughter, the suit claims.
Lizzo then allegedly pressured a member of her security staff to get on stage and yelled “Take it off!”
“Plaintiffs were aghast with how little regard Lizzo showed for the bodily autonomy of her employees and those around her, especially in the presence of many people whom she employed,” the suit says.
Arianna Davis also alleges that in April 2023, Lizzo questioned her “commitment”, which she felt was a thinly veiled criticism of her weight. Arianna Davis claims she was fired on the spot the following month when the singer learned she recorded performance notes, a decision Davis attributes to an eye condition that left her disoriented in stressful situations.
Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez
Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez are two other dancers involved in the lawsuit against Lizzo for s*xual harrasment and fat shaming.
Williams, 26, is a native of Texas who like Arianna Davis, got her start on Lizzo’s reality show, Watch Out For The Big Grrrls,
Crystal Williams, who now lives in Los Angeles, studied Mass Communication at Sam Houston State University and graduated in 2020. While studying, she also pursued her passion for dance on the side, and joined a group on the campus that was called Fade to Black.
Shortly after she graduated, Crystal saw a casting call shared by Lizzo and decided to send in an online submission.
“I thought maybe this is a sign. I did my video submission and everything, I put together a little montage video,” she told her university in an article published earlier this year in February.
“My mass comm degree really popped out with that one because it was a nice audition video, I had two different slides going on while I was talking about myself.”
Once she was cast on the reality show, the star ended up not finishing the competition upon being hired to become one of Lizzo’s dancers ‘effective immediately.’
Meanwhile,25-year-old Noelle Rodriguez was hired after appearing in Lizzo’s music video for Rumors.
Aside from formerly dancing with Lizzo, Noelle has a number of past experiences up her sleeves, such as starring as a background dancer in a scene in the first season of Euphoria. She has also starred in a variety of advertisements from brands such as Kim Kardashian’s SKIMS and also GAP.
Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez filed a lawsuit filed on August 1st, 2023, alleging s*xual harassment, racial harassment, disability discrimination, assault, false imprisonment, and intentional interference with prospective economic advantage.
The lawsuit claims that Lizzo and her production company, Big Grrrl Big Touring, Inc., created a hostile work environment for the dancers, including pressuring them to touch n*de performers while at a club in Amsterdam, making comments about their weight and body shape and threatening to fire them if they spoke out about the alleged harassment.
The dancers are seeking damages for emotional distress, lost wages, and punitive damages.
Lizzo
Lizzo, according to Wikipedia, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actress and musician.
Melissa Viviane Jefferson was born on April 27, 1988 in Detroit, Michigan. She moved to Houston, Texas, with her family when she was ten years old. After college she moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she began her recording career in hip hop music.
Prior to signing with Nice Life Recording Company and Atlantic Records, Lizzo released two studio albums, Lizzobangers (2013) and Big Grrrl Small World (2015). Lizzo’s first major-label EP, Coconut Oil, was released in 2016. Lizzo attained mainstream success with the release of her third studio album, Cuz I Love You (2019), which peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200. The album spawned the singles “Juice” and “Tempo”. The deluxe version of the album included Lizzo’s 2017 single “Truth Hurts” which became a viral sleeper hit two years after its initial release. It topped the US Billboard Hot 100, and became the longest-leading solo song by a female rapper.
Around this time, her 2016 single “Good as Hell” also climbed the charts, reaching the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100 and UK Singles Chart. Lizzo received eight nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, the most for any artist that year, including nominations for each of the “Big Four” categories; and eventually won the awards for Best Urban Contemporary Album, Best Pop Solo Performance for “Truth Hurts”, and Best Traditional R&B Performance for the song “Jerome”.
In 2021, Lizzo released the single “Rumors” (featuring Cardi B), which debuted in the top five of the Billboard Hot 100. Her fourth studio album Special (2022) was preceded by its lead single “About Damn Time”, which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and made Lizzo the first Black female singer since Whitney Houston in 1994 to win the Grammy Award for Record of the Year.
Aside from rapping and singing, Lizzo has also worked as an actor: she served as a voice actor in the animated film UglyDolls (2019) and appeared in the crime comedy-drama film Hustlers (2019). She is also the host of the Amazon Prime Video reality television series Lizzo’s Watch Out for the Big Grrrls, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Competition Program.
In 2019, Time named Lizzo as “Entertainer of the Year” for her meteoric rise and contributions to music. In addition to her four Grammy Awards, she has also won a Billboard Music Award, a BET Award, and two Soul Train Music Awards.
In August 2023, three dancers sued Lizzo – Arianna Davis, Crystal Williams and Noelle Rodriguez alleged s*xual harassment and creating a hostile work environment, along with alleged weight-shaming.
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