A lawsuit has been filed on behalf of nearly a dozen pre-teen and teenage social media influencers seeking millions of dollars in damages against their former manager, the mother of a noted YouTube figure, alleging sexual battery and failure to fully pay them for their contributions.
The Los Angeles Superior Court complaint was brought Wednesday and names as defendants Tiffany Rockelle Smith, the mother of 14-year old YouTube personality Piper Rockelle; their business Piper Rockelle Inc.; and Hunter Hill, identified in the suit as the 25-year-old live-in boyfriend of the 40- year-old Smith and the primary director, editor and cinematographer of Piper Rockelle’s content for her YouTube channel.
The plaintiffs were never fully compensated for their work, despite the fact that their contributions, including the use of their names, images and likenesses, on Piper’s YouTube channel generated several hundred thousand dollars per month for the defendants, the suit states.
The Los Angeles Superior Court complaint was brought Wednesday and names as defendants Tiffany Rockelle Smith, the mother of 14-year old YouTube personality Piper Rockelle; their business Piper Rockelle Inc.; and Hunter Hill, identified in the suit as the 25-year-old live-in boyfriend of the 40- year-old Smith and the primary director, editor and cinematographer of Piper Rockelle’s content for her YouTube channel.
The plaintiffs were never fully compensated for their work, despite the fact that their contributions, including the use of their names, images and likenesses, on Piper’s YouTube channel generated several hundred thousand dollars per month for the defendants, the suit states.
- 1/15/2022
- by Tom Tapp
- Deadline Film + TV
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