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EXCLUSIVE: Influencer Malu Trevejo Has A Secret Abusive Dark Side, New Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Claims | TSR Investigates

<p><strong>Malu Trevejo<&sol;strong> is a singer&comma; influencer and social media superstar with over 36 million followers between her TikTok&comma; Instagram and OnlyFans&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Her followers may love her social media personality&comma; but several former employees say the social media star isn’t who she claims to be online&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In fact&comma; Trevejo is currently facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit because of alleged physical&comma; mental and sexual misconduct&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Several former employees exclusively told <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;fqZ&lowbar;2hkTpGc" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><b>The Shade Room<&sol;b><&sol;a> that Trevejo’s disturbing behavior included unwanted sexual advances&comma; physical threats&comma; and verbal abuse that included racist and homophobic slurs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>However&comma; Trevejo’s attorney Jason Ziven claims the allegations are simply untrue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Could the lawsuit really be baseless&quest; Or does Malu Trevejo have a secret dark side&quest; The Shade Room investigates…<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube data-videoid&equals;"fqZ&lowbar;2hkTpGc" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"1000" height&equals;"563" dock&equals;"&num;dock-slot"><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Cuban-born singer initially rose to social media fame back in 2017 with her hit single &&num;8220&semi;Luna Llena&comma;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Four former employees of Trevejo told us of their alleged treatment at the hands of the social media star&comma; with the dark allegations getting worse and worse&comma; including hiring a personal assistant&comma; Victoria Baretto&comma; who said Trevejo tried to lure her in her bed and sexually harassed her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Trevejo&&num;8217&semi;s Former Personal Assistant Provides Abuse At The Hands Of The Social Media Influencer<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Baretto says Trevejo found her on TikTok&comma; and before long she was on a flight to Florida en route to the influencer&&num;8217&semi;s Miami home&period; Things were fine at first&comma; with Baretto even calling Trejevo &&num;8220&semi;dope&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She was offered the personal assistant job in October 2021&comma; however it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t too long before she started seeing some red flags&period; Trejevo wouldn&&num;8217&semi;t allow Baretto to use or have her phone during her work hours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;So I said&comma; okay Malu&comma; what are the business hours&quest; All I was told &lpar;in response&rpar; was &&num;8216&semi;all day&comma;'&&num;8221&semi; Barreto says&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;108825" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-108825" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-108825" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Screenshot-2023-01-18-at-10&period;35&period;41-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"Malu Trevejo" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"621" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-108825" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Pictured&colon; Malu Trevejo &lpar;Courtesy of YouTube&rpar;&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Baretto ultimately kept her mouth shut on the issue&comma; as she said she needed the money she was earning on the job&comma; money of which she needed to help out her father&comma; who&&num;8217&semi;s dealing with addiction issues&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Former Personal Assistant Tearfully Recounts Alleged Abuse At Hands Of Malu Trevejo<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>She says her dad had passed just two months ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;I got this f&ast;&ast;&ast;ing job with Malu to help him&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Barreto tearfully exclaimed&period; &&num;8220&semi;And to help my mom too&comma; because they are both foreign&comma; they&&num;8217&semi;re Brazilian&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Barrto says Trevejo&&num;8217&semi;s demands became more and more invasive and beyond the scope of her normal professional duties&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Court records show that Trevejo &&num;8220&semi;immediately began making sexual advances towards Ms&period; Baretto once she began her employment with her&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those advances included asking Baretto to sleep in Trevejo&&num;8217&semi;s &&num;8220&semi;bed with her&comma; controlling and claiming possession of her by telling others she was her girlfriend&comma; alienating and isolating her from her family&comma;&&num;8221&semi; amongst other damning allegations&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;108829" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-108829" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-108829" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Screenshot-2023-01-18-at-10&period;42&period;41-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"621" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-108829" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Pictured&colon; court documents in the lawsuit filed by employees against Malu Trevejo&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Baretto says she initially complied with Trevejo&&num;8217&semi;s demands&comma; as she needed to job to earn money for her family&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But it wasn&&num;8217&semi;t long after she began resisting Trevejo&&num;8217&semi;s advances that the influencer began treating her differently&comma; with more aggression and dismissal-type attitude against her&comma; the lawsuit claims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sometimes it would escalate to the point where Trevejo was in &&num;8220&semi;fits of rage&&num;8221&semi; while hurling insults at her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Three More Alleged Victims Speak Up&comma; As Multi-Million Dollar Lawsuit Against Trevejo Is Filed<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>But the alleged abusive behavior didn&&num;8217&semi;t stop with just Baretto&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Trevejo&&num;8217&semi;s former manager&comma; Eduardo Vidal&comma; admits he was enticed by the six-figure salary and move to Miami from the Dominican Republic to support her&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&&num;8220&semi;She would call me &&num;8216&semi;fat&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she would call me &&num;8216&semi;slow&comma;&&num;8217&semi; call me &&num;8216&semi;stupid&comma;'&&num;8221&semi; Vidal told TSR Investigates&&num;8217&semi; <strong>Justin Carter&period;<&sol;strong><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>The last straw between her and her former manager came when Trevejo allegedly went after Vidal while holding a knife&period; Court documents claim Vidal just narrowly escaped serious stab wounds as his influencer employer attempted to attack him&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;108843" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-108843" style&equals;"width&colon; 1140px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-108843" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2023&sol;01&sol;Screenshot-2023-01-18-at-10&period;57&period;07-AM&period;png" alt&equals;"malu trevejo" width&equals;"1140" height&equals;"603" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-108843" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Pictured&colon; the knife reportedly used by Malu Trevejo in lawsuit against her by several former employees&period;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Things got even worse when she hired to Black men&comma; Rich Lacroix and Ralph Colon&comma; to work on her team in May 2022&period; Both men similarly assert that Trevejo abused them&comma; calling them &&num;8220&semi;dirty little Haitians&&num;8221&semi; and make fun of Lacroix for being gay too&comma; he claims&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Former Bodyguard Recounts Time Trevejo Reportedly Attacked Him With A Knife<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Colon&comma; her former bodyguard&comma; echoed Lacroix&&num;8217&semi; sentiment&comma; saying Trevejo had also called him a &&num;8220&semi;dirty Haitian&&num;8221&semi; and &&num;8220&semi;a bunch of racial slurs&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He lasted barely five months before jumping ship from Trevejo&&num;8217&semi;s employment&comma; the time of which he characterized as &&num;8220&semi;traumatizing&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meanwhile&comma; a representative for Trevejo said she is aware of these &&num;8220&semi;false allegations&&num;8221&semi; in the lawsuit&comma; and &&num;8220&semi;looks forward to defending herself against these baseless claims&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>TSR Investigates explores cold cases and special interest news stories underrepresented in mainstream media&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In 2021&comma; <strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;artist-signed-to-travis-scott-takes-to-social-media-to-ask-to-be-let-out-of-her-contract-and-threatens-to-expose-him&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener">The Shade Room<&sol;a><&sol;strong> reported that Trevejo called out Travis Scott in an effort to end her contract with him immediately&comma; writing&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;&commat;traviscott let me out of the contract&period; Really don’t wanna expose the behind scenes s&ast;&ast;t so just let me out of it&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl;&excl; 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