Brooklyn Club Sued For Sexual Harassment Wouldn’t Allow Black Parties
This is pretty insane. A Brooklyn club is facing a lawsuit alleging they withheld pay from employees and subjected them to some pretty severe sexual harassment. The claim also alleges that the owners barred promoters from booking “black people parties.”
According to the NY Daily News:
Williamsburg hotspot Verboten is rife with shameless sexual harassment spearheaded by the out-of-control co-owner, Jen Schiffer, 16 current and former workers allege in documents filed in Brooklyn Federal Court.
Schiffer, 40, presides over a hedonistic atmosphere at the N. 11th St. megaclub in which she “discusses her sex life — including her favorite sexual positions and sexual encounters with her husband, John Perez, and other women,” papers charge.
The raunchy suit comes amid an ongoing dispute with some ex-employees claiming they haven’t been paid, as well as investors. One worker, Dylan Schwartz — described as Schiffer’s boyfriend in papers — also allegedly unleashed a barrage of vile propositions to colleagues.
“Are you having a bad day? You should let me f— you,” Schwartz, 24, allegedly said to a female employee.
Wait, what? Her husband AND her boyfriend worked with her? And she was stupid enough to let her boyfriend harass staffers?
Of course the part we are most outraged by is the banning of “black people parties”
But the suit also charges that Schiffer became furious when an employee, Darrin Morda, booked a party attended by black patrons.
“What are all these black people doing here? You cannot book a black-people party!” she allegedly said.
Morda told The News that Schiffer yelled at him in front of customers.
“(She said) she had promised the police there wouldn’t be black people at this club, and I put the entire club in jeopardy by doing it,” Morda recalled.
SMH. Sounds like this place deserves to be shut down.
Schiffer’s response:
“This is disgusting. This is not true,” she said. “I’m a woman trying to run a nightclub with her husband. This personal abuse and attack is disgusting.”
She added that she didn’t have any “history of racism.”
Blah Blah Blah… Are you even surprised though? Brooklyn or not — it is Williamsburg.
