French movie star drag queen and television presenter Nicky Doll is suing Laurence Fox over feedback he made about drag artists showing within the opening ceremony of the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
Nicky Doll, who was born Karlize Sanchez, was amongst a gaggle of drag artists showing in a scene entitled ‘Festivity’, celebrating inclusion and variety. It was amongst 12 tableaux celebrating the French spirit woven into the Olympics opening ceremony on July 26.
Fox responded to the tableau with a clip and caption which learn: “No level in getting wound up when the kid f**kers wish to wind you up. Simply snort on the deviant little pedos. Eternity is a b***h.”
The ‘Festivity’ tableau additionally provoked controversy after it was erroneously instructed it was a illustration of Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic portray The Final Supper, capturing Jesus Christ’s remaining meal together with his apostles. The ceremony’s creative director Thomas Jolly has since denied this suggestion, saying it was impressed by Greek mythology.
“The cupboard has, on the request of Mr Karl Sanchez, aka Nicky Doll, filed a defamation criticism Mr Laurence Fox and different customers of the social platform X (ex-Twitter),” the artist’s lawyer Anne-Sophie Laguens mentioned in an announcement.
“Nicky Doll, who for years has acquired insults and hate messages, since her efficiency within the Festivity tableau, she has been subjected to an unprecedented wave of hate and nastiness, going as much as loss of life threats,” it continued.
“These messages transcend creative criticism, with a few of them conveying a combination of hate and defamation, associating drag performances with pedophilia. These comparisons are critical and unacceptable.”
“That is the rationale for this motion. Any publication or message suggesting Nicky Doll’s efficiency encourage pedophile practices can be flagged.”
The defamation motion follows information on Friday that the Paris Prosecutor’s Workplace had opened an investigation into an official police criticism by creative director Jolly about insults and loss of life threats he has acquired within the wake of the open ceremony.
French DJ Barbara Butch, who additionally participated within the Festivity section, also lodged a police criticism earlier this week.
France‘s President Emmanuel Macron spoke up in assist of Jolly on Friday, praising the “audacity” of the present, and saying he was “scandalized” and “unhappy” about what the theatre director had been by.
Nicky Doll, whose stage title is a tribute to Nicki Minaj, broke out internationally in 2020 when she appeared in season 12 of RuPaul’s Drag Race, as its first French contender.
Since 2022, Nicky Doll has been the host of Drag Race France and was just lately a commentator for the Eurovision Track Contest 2024 semi-finals.
