Sexual Misconduct Allegations In opposition to Dov Charney Continued to Pile Up
Girls continued to return ahead with sexual harassment allegations in opposition to Dov.
“Initially it was one lady,” worker and civil rights lawyer Toni Jaramilla mentioned in The Cult of American Attire, and “that led to a second. However in doing our due diligence, we discovered different girls who have been claiming they skilled the identical factor.”
Nonetheless, the lawyer defined, girls who used to work for American Attire had signed agreements waiving their proper to a jury trial and barring them from talking negatively in public about Dov or the corporate, that means their lawsuits ended up being despatched to arbitration.
After two sexual harassment fits have been filed in opposition to Dov in March 2011, his lawyer Peter Schey informed the New York Times, “The allegations are false. I feel that is an effort to shake down American Attire. These claims ought to be resolved in confidential arbitration.”
Dov had beforehand been sued at the least 4 instances because the mid-‘00s for making a hostile or sexually charged working setting, in response to the Occasions. The corporate informed the publication the lawsuits had all been settled or dismissed.
“There’s one thing [disingenuous] concerning the claims,” Dov mentioned in archival footage proven within the Netflix doc. “To start with, they’re pretend. Second of all, these claimants are being coached.” He mentioned he was “ready to take a polygraph.”