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A erstwhile media advisor for Inglewood has filed a suit against the metropolis and Mayor James T. Butts Jr. alleging the medication turned a unsighted oculus to the mayor’s usage of metropolis funds to prosecute women helium wants to slumber with and his consequent intersexual harassment of them.
The consultant, identified arsenic successful tribunal documents arsenic “Jane Doe,” alleges Butts utilized a occupation connection and aboriginal a $10,000 declaration to coerce her into a intersexual relationship.
“He abused his presumption arsenic politician to lure her to enactment for the metropolis and past erstwhile helium had her nether his authority, helium made unwanted intersexual advances towards her and engaged successful quid pro quo intersexual harassment, promising her much fiscal opportunities if she would fulfill his creepy intersexual proclivities,” the suit states.
Butts allegedly promised the pistillate much enactment if she “allowed him to effort to hypnotize her to instrumentality of vantage of her for his ain prurient interests,” according to the lawsuit.
Doe alleges Butts retracted his promises and efficaciously had her fired successful December aft she brought up allegations of intersexual harassment made by different woman. Butts’ erstwhile assistant, Melanie McDade-Dickens, sued him and the metropolis earlier this year, alleging that the politician besides had her terminated from her high-paying occupation aft she broke up with him. A justice threw out portion of that lawsuit past period owed to its precocious filing.
Doe and McDade-Dickens are some represented by attorneys Carl Douglas and Maryann Gallagher.
‘Long and sordid’ history
Doe’s suit argues that the politician has a “long and sordid” past of sexually harassing women that the city’s administrators should person known astir and person truthful acold failed to analyse oregon prevent.
“The defendants sent a wide connection to Ms. Doe and different pistillate employees that they would instrumentality suspect Butts’ connection implicit theirs; that they would not instrumentality the allegations of intersexual harassment and intersexual battle seriously; and that they would let Butts to proceed roaming unabated among the halls of City Hall, preying connected different females, without taking immoderate substantive steps to support them,” the suit states.
In a statement, Mira Hashmall, an lawyer representing Inglewood, called the allegations “false, malicious and defamatory” and accused Doe of utilizing the suit arsenic an “extortion tactic.” Inglewood antecedently rejected Doe’s assertion for $5 million successful damages successful April. The suit does not specify a dollar fig for damages.
Suit ‘devoid of immoderate facts’
“There was nary intersexual violence, assault, oregon harassment of immoderate kind. In fact, her ain ailment makes that clear. It is devoid of immoderate facts to enactment her fabrications,” Hashmall wrote. “This is simply a transparent ploy to effort to destruct the estimation of others successful the pursuit of money. It volition not work. We are prepared to combat these lies each the mode to trial.”
Doe primitively received a “conditional connection of part-time employment” for a $36,263 webmaster presumption successful March 2020, according to the city. Her exertion stated she learned astir the occupation from Butts. A inheritance cheque aboriginal recovered grounds of an alleged burglary condemnation and Doe was asked to supply an explanation, according to Hashmall. She ne'er did explicate it and the exertion was dropped.
“Plaintiff was ne'er an worker of the city,” Hashmall stated.
Douglas, Doe’s attorney, antecedently said his lawsuit was arrested much than a decennary agone erstwhile a person shoplifted, but that the lawsuit was yet dismissed. He alleges the metropolis utilized the incidental arsenic a pretext to revoke the occupation connection solely due to the fact that Doe raised questions astir the different intersexual harassment allegation against Butts.
Doe was alternatively hired connected a short-term declaration that expired nether its presumption successful December 2020, according to Hashmall. The contract, approved by City Manager Artie Fields successful October 2020, stated Doe would assistance with the city’s website and make nationalist work announcements.
The metropolis posted lone 1 specified announcement connected its website from October 2020 to January 2021. When asked astir the discrepancy earlier this year, Hashmall said Doe alternatively helped amended accusation connected the website and arranged interviews for the politician with 2 broadcast quality stations. She did not person a public-facing occupation arsenic primitively outlined successful her contract.
The metropolis has refused to supply grounds of the enactment Doe performed.
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