The former assistant of a powerful gay New York real estate broker is suing her ex-boss for allegedly tormenting her whilst in his employ.
Amy Gagnon began working as the personal assistant to top Manhattan real estate broker Jared Seligman last spring. Seligman is an agent at Douglas Elliman, one of the largest brokerages in New York and the fourth largest residential real estate company nationwide.
In a lawsuit filed Monday with the Manhattan Federal Court, Gagnon claims she had no idea what she was in for when she first took the job back in May 2016.
“What Ms. Gagnon did not know, and could not possibly anticipate, is that the price she was asked to pay in exchange for this experience would require her to partake in the sexual predilections and illegal activity of her boss,” the lawsuit states.
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It then alleges Seligman, whose clients include James Franco and Kirstin Dunst, forced Gagnon to work from his apartment one time so he could have his doctor come over and give him Botox injections. During the appointment, Seligman purportedly told the doctor, “I want your d— in my face” and “Oooooh you’re so sexy.”
“Mr. Seligman then began to roughly grope the doctor in front of Ms. Gagnon, gabbing his crotch,” court papers claim.
Another time, Gagnon says she was working from Seligman’s apartment when a “strange man” came over. He and Seligman disappeared into a bedroom and “engaged in loud and unmistakable sexual intercourse.”
The lawsuit accuses Seligman of wanting Gagnon to overhear his “raucous” romp for some unknown reason.
“In fact,” the complaint continues, “Mr. Seligman left little doubt about his intentions when, shortly after the other man left, Mr. Seligman came out of his room wearing nothing but his bathrobe and smirked at Ms. Gagnon.”
In addition to all that, Gagnon says she was forced to work up to 12 hours a day without overtime and would frequently receive drunken calls from her boss after office hours.
Gagnon says she suffered “severe mental anguish and emotional distress” as a result, but when she complained last December, she was promptly fired. She is suing for monetary relief, the amount of which will be determined at trial.
yaletownman
If I had to judge him by his photo I’d put my money on what the assistant is saying. He’s pretty icky looking.
Tête Carrée
“icky”?
ChrisK
I wouldn’t throw him out of bed.
yaletownman
I looked up other photos of him on the web he looks like the love child of EJ Johnson and Michael Lucas. He didn’t get the best genes from either of them.
AlexM
Everyone nowadays feels the need to sue anyone with money for any reason.
ChrisK
Oh lord. How ridiculous.
KaiserVonScheiss
I’m going to guess that he’s a power bottom.
Evji108
Nobody would grope a doctor while he was sticking needles in his face.
DCguy
This sounds like a story that could be told by many many assistants to people.
IS the guy a dick? Probably, but any Hollywood assistant working from their bosses house has heard sex and seen bathrobes.
I’m not defending the guy, I think that workers put up with far too much, but not sure why this story is getting news, unless it’s because the sex was “GAY” sex.
SarcasaticMisanthrope
Why didn’t she just quit? Oh no, its better to sue to get a better payout.
He BGB
She should work for Mathew McConaughey instead. He’s a Christian, I hear,
Jack Meoff
Yes but he plays the bongos naked so she would be subjected to that.
rbernard
Well cry me a river – if she didn’t like the environment, she should have quit and found one to her liking, but to sue, ….. she sounds like a gold digger
Captain proton
it dies sound sensationalist. Maybe she’s hoping he’ll settle rather than get dragged into court and in the press.
Felecia
I am actually thrilled with this situation….it means that I get to sue everyone in Hollywood and the television-industry that has made me suffer, having to watch AND hear loud HETERO sex-scenes all over the screen…I find THAT to be ‘icky’ to ME, and I want my share of the pie for having to endure distressing filth for most of my 53 years on earth. Now that our marriages are legal, I am assuming that some shark lawyer has taken this same stance. Yes, I can turn off the TV or avoid movie-theaters; but the woman suing the broker could have found another job. Same thing….good assistants are hard to find and in great demand….she needs to quit whining. I bet that if her million-dollar boss had been straight and was interested in HER, the world would not have heard ONE complaint…except maybe that an engagement ring was too slow in appearing, lol…I hope he hires that shark, and makes a LOUD statement about what we LGBT’s have had to listen to and see that has disgusted US for decades…..