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Filmmaker John Ridley, ABC, and Disney Named as Defendants in Discrimination Lawsuit

John Ridley, ABC Studios, and Disney were named as defendants in a discrimination lawsuit by an Asian American woman.

A woman who was working as a development executive for filmmaker John Ridley has filed a lawsuit alleging that her job was terminated in 2022 after she raised issues of pay inequality since she’s Asian American. Asta Jonasson filed the suit, which named Ridley, ABC, and that network’s parent company, Disney, as co-defendants, in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. “Jonasson now seeks to stand up for herself and countless others in Hollywood who, without bargaining power and in the face of systemic discrimination, are taken advantage of and left working long hours for low wages and little to no credit,” the complaint states.

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