Star Derek Dixon spoke up Tuesday in his very first tv meeting because submitting a claim versus media magnate Tyler Perry, sharing claims of unwanted sexual advances and attack he claims he sustained from the billionaire.
Dixon, that submitted a $260 million claim versus Perry in June, took a seat with ABC Information Live support Linsey Davis to review his purportedly difficult background with the media magnate, claiming he did not “wish to remain quiet regarding it any longer” despite the fact that “it’s a prone point to discuss.”
” It’s been hard,” Dixon claimed. “There’s a great deal of embarassment around it. Simply attempting to believe what you can have done far better and needing to handle the judgment of just how you can’ve finished it much better without remaining in that circumstance.”
Perry, that has actually generated 24 function movies, 20 phase plays, 17 tv programs and 2 New york city Times very successful publications, has among the biggest movie studio in the nation, Tyler Perry Studios, and has actually additionally gained a place in the billionaire’s club, according to his site. The magnate additionally obtained the Jean Hersholt Good Samaritan Honor for his assistance via large contributions to the NAACP.
Dixon claims he initially satisfied Perry at a workshop opening up celebration in 2019 while he was operating at an occasions firm. According to Dixon, Perry asked him if he was a star, provided him his number and claimed “we’ll discuss this.”
Linsey Davis spoke with star Derek Dixon in his very first television meeting because he submitted a $260 million claim versus media magnate Tyler Perry, affirming unwanted sexual advances and attacks he claimed he sustained.
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In very early 2020, Dixon landed the function as “Dale” in Perry’s wager collection “The Oval,” showing up in 85 episodes in between 2021 to 2025– an occupation step that he claimed was something “he constantly fantasized around.”
According to the civil problem, when Dixon was dealing with the program, Perry started sending out sms message to him, with some being sex-related in nature.
” Among them claims, ‘What’s it mosting likely to consider you to have righteous sex? Have y’ all discovered that in treatment yet? I would certainly really hope that you would certainly allow a person hold and make love to you,'” Dixon claimed.
In a declaration to ABC Information, Perry’s legal representative Matthew Boyd claimed “this is a person that obtained near Tyler Perry of what currently seems absolutely nothing greater than establishing a rip-off.”
The lawyer included: “Tyler will certainly not be drunk down and we are positive these produced insurance claims of harassment will certainly fall short.”
Tyler Perry goes to the 2025 wager Honors at Peacock Movie Theater, June 9, 2025, in Los Angeles.
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In January 2020, Dixon asserts Perry’s physical habits purportedly began appearing like the tone of his sms message, with Dixon claiming one claimed case happened when he was having beverages at the magnate’s bed and breakfast.
As opposed to driving home that evening, Dixon claimed Perry informed him to remain in the visitor quarters, which is when he claimed the experience deviated, the claim declares.
” I entered bed and afterwards I discovered that he climbed up right into bed with me also and began massaging my leg. I leapt out of bed … he had actually claimed, ‘Reverse so I can check out you’ and simply talk about just how I looked. And after that he stood up and left. So I believed afterwards circumstances, it was quite clear that I was not curious about that sort of a connection,” Dixon informed ABC Information.
After That, at the end of the 2nd period of “The Oval,” Dixon’s personality was fired 4 times in the upper body, which he claimed made him understand “if I do not make him pleased, I can remain dead on the program.”
After they had actually ended up capturing that scene, Dixon asserts Perry welcomed him to have beverages in his trailer, where Dixon claimed Perry purportedly asked if he “was brought in to him.”
Derek Dixon starred as Dale in Tyler Perry’s wager collection “The Oval,” showing up in 85 episodes in between 2021 and 2025.
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Dixon, in what he claimed was an effort to de-escalate the circumstance, claimed he informed the magnate he was an “appealing male” however he was not interested, which is when he asserts the case came to be physical.
” That’s when he pressed me up versus the wall surface and ordered my a ** once again. I bear in mind leaving his trailer and calling my close friend right away and simply really feeling unwell regarding it,” Dixon claimed.
One more case in between Dixon and Perry purportedly happened in June 2021, when Dixon asserts he went to Perry’s home in Atlanta.
Throughout that go to, the magnate purportedly made “numerous alcohols for himself and required to recognize why Dixon was not making love with any individual,” the problem claimed.
Perry remained to penetrate with concerns and “urged that both were ending up being significantly intoxicated and it was time to finish the evening,” according to the problem.
The magnate after that led Dixon to the shower room of the bed and breakfast– where Dixon would certainly be investing the evening– when Perry “moved to Dixon ahead see a weight display that he had,” the problem claimed.
According to Dixon, Perry after that informed Dixon required to be “in your underclothing to gauge.”
He got to down and drew my underclothing down and ordered my a ** and I attempted to quit him and draw back my underclothing up and he ordered my arms and claimed, ‘No, no, no, it’s alright, simply choose it.’ I claimed, ‘Quit, I do not wish to be nude,'” Dixon claimed.
He claimed he “really did not recognize what to do” because minute and tried to sidetrack and de-escalate the circumstance, with Dixon he claiming he at some point secured himself alone in the guesthouse shower room.
The star claimed he finished interaction with Perry in the springtime of 2024 and he determined to leave “The Oval” in September 2024. He additionally claimed “Shedding It,” a program he had actually been creating that the magnate has the legal rights to, was never ever created past the pilot.
After That in January, Dixon submitted an issue with the united state Equal Job Opportunity Payment, a government company in charge of safeguarding employees from discrimination.
Dixon claimed he generated the quantity of $260 million in problems for for his succeeding claim for 2 factors: “Component of that number is my shed work, my lost revenue, the loss of a program. The various other component of that is a deterrent for just how do you quit a billionaire that will not quit themselves from doing this.”
Linsey Davis and Derek Dixon review his claims versus Tyler Perry in a meeting for ABC Information Live Prime.
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Dixon claimed he wishes Perry takes “liability of what took place” which the claim showed him to “not treat your workers by doing this and to never ever make use of a person’s desire to push them right into a connection that’s not specialist.”
When inquired about justice, Dixon claimed it would certainly “appear like assuming I have actually made a modification which something similar to this will not occur to an additional star that benefits him or an additional star in the market. That would certainly be justice for me.”
ABC Information’ Milan Miller added to this record.
