American Apparel founder Dov Charney faces sexual harassment suit [View All]

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Source: The Guardian

Dov Charney built a fashion empire around hipster chic and a louche lifestyle that embraced pornography and lascivious advertising. Now the founder and chief executive of American Apparel sees both his life and his work crumbling around him in the form of a devastating sexual harassment suit by a former employee.

The legal action launched by Irene Morales, a former manager of one of American Apparel's branches in New York City, alleges that Charney conducted a campaign of "extreme psychological abuse and torment" from the time she started working as a shop assistant at the age of 17 in 2007, while still a school student.

Morales says Charney began by making explicit advances and that shortly after her 18th birthday he invited her to his apartment in New York City.

"She was, to all intents and purposes, held prisoner in his apartment for several hours and forced to perform additional sex acts upon defendant Charney," Morales's lawyers claim in court documents.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/mar/09/american-apparel-dov-charney-harassment

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I've hated this guy for a long time, so it's good to see the world catching on to what a creep he is. For extra asshole points, he's suing her for breaking her severance agreement.