R&B crooner Johnny Gill is suing the Four Seasons after they failed to stop or prevent an alleged racist attack on him at their Beverly Hills location. The $1 million lawsuit is now headed to Superior Court.
The incident occurred on the night of August 23, 2011. Gill and a date were sitting on the patio area of the hotel when a drunken guest began to hurl racial expletives at him. His complaint states:
“Plaintiff is African American and this individual who uttered these racially charged negatives remarks was Caucasian.
“Plaintiff objected to these unsolicited remarks and when he did so, this individual pushed plaintiff with such force and intensity that plaintiff was thrust up against a heating lamp causing great bodily injury with resulting pain and suffering, major medical expenses and loss of earnings as plaintiff was unable to perform as an entertainer, plaintiff’s extremely successful and lucrative chosen profession for over 20 years.
“ At no time did defendant’s security employees, staff or representative offer any assistance to plaintiff nor did any such intervene to protect plaintiff, prevent the individual from becoming inebriated and thus behaving in an unruly manner the result of which was the assault that was committed on plaintiff and the resulting injuries to plaintiff.”
Gill is suing for negligence, failure to intervene, failure to exercise reasonable care, pain and suffering and medical expenses. If everything that he alleged is proven true, do you think he’ll win the case or will the Four Seasons settle out of court?
