Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2022 16:08:24 GMT
The AG alleges she violated the state’s Deceptive Trade Practices Act and misled consumers with eating disorders.
"The state of Texas is suing Dallas-Fort Worth social media influencer Brittany Dawn Davis over a fitness plan scheme it claims violated consumer protection laws and misled followers with eating disorders who bought into it.
The attorney general’s office is seeking between $250,000 and $1 million in penalties and court fees, according to the lawsuit filed Feb. 1 in Dallas County court....
Customers of Davis’ fitness plans sought refunds from her when she did not make good on her business promises, but many were ignored and had their social media comments deleted, as The News reported in 2019.
Davis posted a video in February 2019 in which she apologized, but also claimed customers harassed and threatened her. The day after The News published a report about the video and upset customers, Davis appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America.
In the appearance, Davis told viewers she was “done hiding” and wanted to refund clients who alleged she had scammed them with falsely advertised exercise and diet plans. Women who bought personal training services from Davis claimed she had been accepting clients’ money for years with little to no communication afterward.
When Davis did respond to clients, she offered “only partial refunds,” according to the attorney general’s lawsuit. In 2019, Davis also took down her fitness website bdawnfit.com. The website is active today, though the shop portion appears to be shut down.
Part of Davis’ fitness plan included membership in a Facebook group called “Team Brittany Dawn” in which customers quickly put together that the plans they were receiving were not individualized as advertised, according to the suit.
The lawsuit outlines the experiences of several of Davis’s clients, including one “who almost passed out from inadequate nutrition” while following Davis’ nutritional plan. Davis scolded the client in an email a month later, the suit said.
Davis positioned herself as having overcome eating disorders with nutrition and exercise, leading her clients to believe she could help them as well. But Davis provided weight loss plans to clients needing weight gain plans, according to the suit....
The state also alleges that Davis unlawfully charged shipping fees for goods transmitted via email.
Since then, Davis has scrubbed her YouTube channel of the apology and other videos posted around the time of the Good Morning America appearance.
Using a last name from a previous marriage, Davis also applied for and received a forgivable paycheck protection program loan of $20,800 in April 2020 for her fitness business, according to a ProPublica dataset of PPP loan recipients.
On YouTube, Davis boasts a following of more than 250,000. On Instagram, she has nearly 460,000 and on Twitter she has almost 50,000. Her largest following is on TikTok, where she has amassed 946,000 followers on an account where she posts inspirational, lifestyle and Christian content.
Davis began sharing Christian content in late 2019 on the account @shelivesfreed on Instagram. She later moved from Dallas to Fort Worth, explaining in videos that Dallas was too materialistic and she wanted to be closer to family."
The attorney general’s office is seeking between $250,000 and $1 million in penalties and court fees, according to the lawsuit filed Feb. 1 in Dallas County court....
Customers of Davis’ fitness plans sought refunds from her when she did not make good on her business promises, but many were ignored and had their social media comments deleted, as The News reported in 2019.
Davis posted a video in February 2019 in which she apologized, but also claimed customers harassed and threatened her. The day after The News published a report about the video and upset customers, Davis appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America.
In the appearance, Davis told viewers she was “done hiding” and wanted to refund clients who alleged she had scammed them with falsely advertised exercise and diet plans. Women who bought personal training services from Davis claimed she had been accepting clients’ money for years with little to no communication afterward.
When Davis did respond to clients, she offered “only partial refunds,” according to the attorney general’s lawsuit. In 2019, Davis also took down her fitness website bdawnfit.com. The website is active today, though the shop portion appears to be shut down.
Part of Davis’ fitness plan included membership in a Facebook group called “Team Brittany Dawn” in which customers quickly put together that the plans they were receiving were not individualized as advertised, according to the suit.
The lawsuit outlines the experiences of several of Davis’s clients, including one “who almost passed out from inadequate nutrition” while following Davis’ nutritional plan. Davis scolded the client in an email a month later, the suit said.
Davis positioned herself as having overcome eating disorders with nutrition and exercise, leading her clients to believe she could help them as well. But Davis provided weight loss plans to clients needing weight gain plans, according to the suit....
The state also alleges that Davis unlawfully charged shipping fees for goods transmitted via email.
Since then, Davis has scrubbed her YouTube channel of the apology and other videos posted around the time of the Good Morning America appearance.
Using a last name from a previous marriage, Davis also applied for and received a forgivable paycheck protection program loan of $20,800 in April 2020 for her fitness business, according to a ProPublica dataset of PPP loan recipients.
On YouTube, Davis boasts a following of more than 250,000. On Instagram, she has nearly 460,000 and on Twitter she has almost 50,000. Her largest following is on TikTok, where she has amassed 946,000 followers on an account where she posts inspirational, lifestyle and Christian content.
Davis began sharing Christian content in late 2019 on the account @shelivesfreed on Instagram. She later moved from Dallas to Fort Worth, explaining in videos that Dallas was too materialistic and she wanted to be closer to family."
Caveat emptor and all that, but I hope they claw back money for those scammed by her "individualized" plans and other lies and harms over the past several years.
PS - she's a qanon loon: "Her more recent videos have tapped into popular QAnon talking points and conspiracy theories in general, like the debunked theory that furniture company Wayfair was trafficking children inside of its furniture shipments."
and anti-masker
One time a poster said, "Isn't she engaged?" and she had a negative count. 
