GALVESTON — A former LA Fitness employee alleges former co-workers and management defamed him by falsely claiming he was fired for sexual harassment.
Nikolas Lowry filed a complaint Dec. 5 in Galveston County District Court against Jeremy Frazier, Devin Jones & Fitness International LLC, doing business as LA Fitness, and others alleging defamation.
Lowry, according to his complaint, began working for LA Fitness in League City in October of 2020 as a sales department manager. He claims that he was unlawfully terminated in December of 2021 with a "vague allegation that he was being terminated for retaliating against certain employees" and for threatening and harassing them.
He further claims that LA Fitness employees and customers informed him that LA Fitness falsely told them he was terminated for sexually harassing another employee. Lowry claims the allegations are "utterly false" and that the defendants' defamatory statements caused him to lose employment opportunities with other companies to which he applied and caused him to suffer mental anguish.
Lowry seeks monetary relief of more than $1 million, interest, trial by jury and all other just relief. He is represented by Ashok Bail of The Bail Law Firm PLLC in Houston.
Galveston County District Court case number 22-CV-2303