Malu Trevejo faces $4 million lawsuit from former staffers over abuse claims YouTube: Malu TrevejoTikTok star and singer Malu Trevejo is being sued by four former members of her team over claims of abuse, defamation, and sexual misconduct. 20-year-old Malu Trevejo is one part social media star and one part music artist, rising to fame on TikTok and YouTube over the years thanks to her discography of popular songs like \u2018Tu Lo Tienes.\u2019 Boasting over 25 million followers on TikTok, Trevejo has cemented herself as one of the platform\u2019s elite creators\u2026 but she\u2019s currently facing some legal difficulties that are dividing her fanbase. According to a lawsuit obtained by Billboard, Trevejo is currently being sued by four of her former staffers who are seeking $4 million in damages for alleged defamation, battery, and sexual misconduct. Malu Trevejo sued by former workers for battery, defamation & sexual misconduct The plaintiffs, Ralph Colon, Edwardo Vidal, Victoria Barreto, and Witchneverson Lacroix, claim they \u201cendured mental, emotional, sexual and physical punishment\u201d under Trevejo\u2019s employment. That\u2019s not all; they also state that the singer called them racial slurs, and say that Trevejo made unwanted sexual advances toward Barreto, who worked as her personal assistant. According to the suit, Trevejo requested that Barreto \u201csleep with her in her bed, cuddle with her and watch television,\u201d as well as allegedly being \u201ccontrolling and claiming possession of\u201d her. When Barreto rejected Trevejo\u2019s advances, she claimed she \u201cexperienced increased aggression\u201d and \u201cdismissive responses\u201d from the singer, who she alleged would call her \u201cstupid\u201d or \u201cdumb.\u201d Trevejo\u2019s former bodyguard, Ralph Colon, also claims that he was abused by the influencer, saying that she \u201cfrequently ignored\u201d his security advice and would \u201cforce\u201d him to place himself in danger. Trevejo\u2019s attorney has responded to the lawsuit, saying in a statement to Billboard: \u201cMs. Trevejo is aware of the false allegations in the lawsuit and looks forward to defending herself against these baseless claims.\u201d According to a source close to the influencer, cited by TMZ, Trevejo is \u201cdevastated\u201d by the accusations and \u201cwould never hurt anyone in this way.\u201d This news follows an emotional live stream from Trevejo in early December where the singer claimed her home had been broken into and that she \u201cknew who did this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Malu Trevejo faces $4 million lawsuit from former staffers over abuse claims YouTube: Malu TrevejoTikTok star and singer Malu Trevejo is being sued by four former members of her team over claims of abuse, defamation, and sexual misconduct. 20-year-old Malu Trevejo is one part social media star and one part music artist, rising to fame […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54771","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}