The mother of a young YouTube sensation was accused of sexually, physically and emotionally abusing her daughter’s nearly a dozen young co-creators and will face her alleged victims in court on Monday.
Tiffany Smith, whose daughter is 15-year-old YouTuber Piper Rockell, was sued by 11 young content creators last year over alleged abuse as well as an apparent lack of compensation for their work.
According to the complaint filed in January 2022, Smith is accused of “harassment, harassment and abuse.” The civil trial is expected to begin Monday. NBC News reported.
The lawsuit alleges that Momager gained a reputation as a “human control freak” whose interactions with content creators were “not only sexually inappropriate and confrontational, but often offensive and illegal,” the lawsuit alleges. .
In total, the plaintiffs — who are all former members of the “Piper Squad” and starred on her daughter’s YouTube channel — are seeking at least $22 million in damages from Smith and her boyfriend, Hunter Hill, who Also involved in the production of Piper’s Channel
The complaint accuses Smith of making shocking comments about teenagers’ genitalia, including allegedly asking a content producer how long his penis was. She also allegedly told another creator that she was chesty.
In another disturbing incident, the complaint claims Smith mailed her daughter’s underwear to an unknown person because “old men like to smell this stuff” she allegedly told one of the plaintiffs.
He was accused of inappropriately touching the children’s legs, thighs and buttocks and encouraging the teenagers to be sexually aggressive during video shoots to make the staged romantic relationships look more real, the lawsuit said. can be seen
According to NBC News, the pretend romantic crushes that the young creators were supposed to have on each other allegedly led to online bullying.
“I just want peace back with my kids,” Ashley Anne-Rock Smith told the outlet. Her two daughters are Rockell’s cousins and have appeared in about 100 of her videos.
The lawsuit alleges that the plaintiffs were never compensated by Smith for their likeness that was used to promote Piper’s material. However, they admitted that compensation was not promised in advance.
When the nine content creators left “Piper’s Squad,” their own YouTube channels received fewer clicks and subscribers, according to the suit. The plaintiffs claimed that Smith and her boyfriend flagged their videos as inappropriate or embedded their content on porn sites, so it was restricted on YouTube.
As a result, they all missed out on collecting more revenue, the lawsuit says.
Smith sued for $30 million in July, claiming the plaintiffs’ mothers were colluding to extort money by lying about alleged sexual abuse, but dropped it shortly after, NBC News reported. .
One of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs reportedly called Smith’s claims “baseless.”
Piper was just 9 years old when she became an online sensation.
His channel, which has over 10 million subscribers, was shut down in the February After 2022 Business Insider reached out to YouTube regarding the various allegations against Smith and Hill.
