Beau Demayo Uses His Onlyfans Account To Spread His Truth on Disney Firing, Claims That “Being gay, black, and open about it” Was the Real Issue

Beau DeMayo has recently been in the spotlight, and it’s not just because of his work on the popular show X-Men ’97. DeMayo was let go from his role as showrunner and head writer earlier this year, just weeks before the first season was set to premiere.

Neither DeMayo nor the company has commented on why he was dismissed, but his recent accusations against the company have brought a lot of attention to the situation.

DeMayo accused the studio of discriminating against him based on his sexual orientation and possibly race, at that point Disney and Marvel Studios had no choice but to come out regarding what had led to the firing. The studio spokesperson claimed that DeMayo was fired due to horrifying results of an internal investigation, while an industry insider filed in the blanks claiming that DeMayo was harassing his co-workers and among the allegations was also accusation that he had been harassing them sexually.

DeMayo allegedly sent sexual photos to young staffers, groped assistants, and emotionally and physically abused staff members. Now following this, DeMayo quickly hired a lawyer who went public with a statement that his client would fight these allegations – at no point claiming that DeMayo was innocent.

Now after a few weeks, the dust has seemingly settled again until DeMayo gave another statement, this time on his personal OnlyFans account:

The rumors being spread around me online are lies, and they are offensive, but more concerning is that they’re a smear campaign designed to discredit my credibility in order to cover up the egregious prejudicial misconduct stretching from select crew members on X-Men ’97, all the way all the way to the top at Marvel Studios.

Source: DeMayo’s OnlyFans account via Deadline

Beau DeMayo has claimed that his dismissal from Marvel Studios was due to his identity as a gay Black man. He asserts that his openness about his sexuality and race led to his removal and the removal of his credits for the second season of ‘X-Men ’97’. DeMayo says he felt unsafe at the studio following his initial conversation with HR, which he believes contributed to his departure.

In the end, the offenses Marvel and others have leaked are designed to distract you from what really offended them. Someone like me dared to speak truth to people like them. They wanted me to be the Black stamp of approval on this project, I declined. They wanted to erase aspects of my personality that clashed or proved inconvenient with the misguided narratives they wanted to establish. I declined. They tried to intimidate me with both explicit and implied threats. I was not intimidated. Everything they have done since then has been designed not just to silence me and smear me, but to crush me and to remind me to know my role.

I have the receipts and the eyewitnesses so long as you stop coercing them to lie, you can keep attacking me with lies and misinformation, but we can become the ugliest, most annoying version of that of that … or you can start acting like a studio that is worthy of a show like X Men ‘97.

DeMayo’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, a prominent attorney known for handling major wrongful termination cases addressed DeMayo’s OnlyFans confessions and said there are some legal battles up ahead as he filed for a complaint:

DeMayo, who intends to detail his prior employment with Marvel via OnlyFans, bore witness to and endured rampant discriminatory and harassing conduct during his years-long tenure with the Company. Well aware that DeMayo possessed copious knowledge regarding Marvel’s illicit and unsafe employment practices, the Company sought to silence DeMayo as part of his forced ouster. Backed by an army of well-versed employment attorneys, Marvel knowingly incorporated an illegal non-disparagement provision designed to muzzle an openly gay Black man and restrict his statutory rights, and, in fact, Marvel invoked this unenforceable provision to justify its nefarious removal of DeMayo’s credits on the acclaimed series X-Men ‘97.

And the removal of DeMayo’s credits was what started this whole mess. The writer was first angry due to not being invited to Emmy Awards despite ‘X-Men ’97’ being nominated, the last straw was the letter that he received that his writing credits for season 2 had been removed.

DeMayo admitted in the past that he almost completely wrote season 2, however after several months Brad Winderbaum, Marvel’s Head of Animation confirmed that the script has been reworked in large part so the removal of credits was expected.

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