Louis Vuitton has been hit with a lawsuit from a mom and daughter who declare they had been handled unfairly on the trend model’s shops in comparison with white buyers in the identical shops.
In response to court docket docs, Tracy Renee Williams says she preordered and paid about $50,000 for objects at a Costa Mesa LV retailer, however by no means obtained the supply. When she went to a Beverly Hills location, she claims a white supervisor advised her she was now not welcome and that she could be arrested if she stayed or got here again.
Tracy claims just a few days later, she despatched her white assistant to the shop, and he was handled respectfully and allowed to make a purchase order with a number of thousand {dollars} in money.
Williams says she has a profitable social media presence the place she critiques and showcases LV items, and claims she’s misplaced about $40,000 a month in income since being banned from the shops.
Her daughter Brandi additionally alleges discrimination … saying an LV supervisor at a Beverly Hills retailer refused to let her store, falsely accusing her of spending “drug money” and threatening to have her arrested if she didn’t depart. She claims the identical factor occurred at an LV retailer in New Orleans.
Tracy and Brandi’s buddy Kristopher Enoch additionally claims he noticed employees present a white buyer a selected jacket, however he says he was advised it wasn’t accessible when he requested to purchase it. Kristopher alleges he later obtained an e-mail saying he was blacklisted from the shops.
All three are in search of damages, together with punitives, and wish the court docket to order the corporate to cease blacklisting them.
