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Its equal opportunity for sexual harassment at the Penthouse Executive Club, a former cocktail waitress claimed as she took legal action against the New York skin palace reports news.com.au
Lourdes Garcia filed suit claiming she was canned in December after complaining about come-ons by bosses of both sexes, The New York Post reported.
The drink server alleges that Kelly Gerald-Hughes, a general manager, began to "repeatedly touch (her) in a sexual manner on her legs and thighs" early last year.
Later, Ms Gerald-Hughes - who "frequently performed for customers in VIP rooms" despite her job title - offered to engage in girl-on-girl action with Ms Garcia "in front of the customers for a fee," according to Ms Garcia’s Manhattan federal court suit.
Ms Garcia also alleged that club manager John Loukas "repeatedly" invited her into his office, "implying that he wanted to have a sexual relationship".
Mr Loukas "several times told (Ms Garcia) ‘if you want me to help you, you have to help me. There are no cameras up here,’" according to the suit, which does not specify damages.
Ms Garcia, who said she was "humiliated and degraded" by the incidents, complained "on more than one occasion" to club owner Robert Gans, after which Ms Gerald-Hughes allegedly told Ms Garcia she had "significant influence" over CEO Mark Yackow and could retaliate against her if she didn’t shut up.
Ms Garcia’s lawyer, Maimon Kirschenbaum, called her treatment "disgraceful," saying: "No human being, in any position, at any establishment, should be treated like that."
A woman who answered the phone at the club said there would be "no comment" on the suit and hung up.
