Megan Thee Stallion Says Accuser Must ‘Put Up Or Shut Up’ In Lawsuit Over Alleged Car-Sex Incident

Megan Thee Stallion’s lawyers say it’s time “to put up or shut up” for a cameraman who’s suing the rapper over allegations that he was forced to watch her have sex in a car during a European tour.

Emilio Garcia filed the lawsuit last year, claiming the superstar subjected him to a hostile work environment due to the alleged incident. But in a motion filed in court on Tuesday, Megan’s lawyers say he’s failed to find any evidence to support those claims, even after months of litigation in which thousands of documents have been handed over.

“Plaintiff still has no evidentiary support for his sensationalized and baseless claims,” Megan’s attorney Alex Spiro writes, before quoting from a legal precedent that tells such plaintiffs to “to put up or shut up” in such situations. “No longer can plaintiff hide behind presumptions of truth for allegations unmoored to any factual support.”

Garcia sued Megan in April 2024 over the alleged car-sex incident, which he says took place in 2022 while he was working as a videographer on her tour. He claimed the incident left him “embarrassed, mortified and offended,” and that Megan and Roc Nation had later retaliated against him by reducing his work and eventually terminating him.

Megan has long denied any wrongdoing, arguing in court filings that the case was built on “false and fabricated” allegations filed by a “con artist.” But in a ruling this summer, a judge refused to dismiss the lawsuit at the earliest possible stage, when judges do not yet weigh evidence and consider all claims to be true.

In Tuesday’s new filing, Megan’s lawyers say that after extensive discovery – the process in a civil lawsuit where both sides exchange evidence – it’s now clear that Garcia lacks the necessary proof to win most of his case. She’s seeking so-called summary judgment on all but a few of Garcia claims, including his accusation that she fired him in retaliation.

“The evidence demonstrates that plaintiff’s own insulting text messages about Ms. Pete — not any purported complaints about his work environment or wages — caused the end of his services,” her lawyers say.

Megan’s filing came a day after Jay-Z’s Roc Nation, her management company, filed a similar motion seeking to end the lawsuit. In it, the company said that Garcia had “inexplicably” named the company though Roc had “never employed plaintiff, or even contracted for one minute” of his cameraman services: “The time has come to end the burden and expense that this suit has imposed on Roc Nation.”

In a statement to Billboard, Garcia’s attorney Ron Zambrano said he and his team were confident that Megan’s motion would be denied by the judge: “This is just the MO of celebrities when they’ve been sued. They don’t settle. They don’t resolve. They just try to get rid of it, never looking at themselves to see if they’re at all at fault for what’s happened to their own employees but instead spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on public relations and attorneys to protect their brands.”