Overview
- Screenshots published by multiple outlets show Mario Rodriguez messaged Perry on Thanksgiving 2024 and Aug. 31, 2025, expressing gratitude, friendship and financial distress.
- Rodriguez’s lawsuit filed in Los Angeles seeks at least $77 million, alleging sexual assault, sexual battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress.
- The complaint describes incidents in 2016, 2018 and 2019, including accounts of unwanted touching at Perry’s Los Angeles home.
- Lionsgate is named in the suit for alleged corporate negligence related to Boo! A Madea Halloween, and the studio has not commented in reports.
- Perry’s attorney Alex Spiro rejects the claims, calling the case a '$77 million money grab,' as a related lawsuit by actor Derek Dixon remains active in federal court in Georgia.