Women File Suit Against American Apparel Over Posting Of Nude Pictures
In a what can only be called a “bizarre” case the same woman who accused American Apparel Inc CEO Dov Charney of keeping her as a teenage sex slave is now suing him and his clothing retailer for defamation and invasion of privacy.
In the complaint, filed last week the former American Apparel saleswoman and two other women claimed that Charney posted nude pictures of them on the Internet.
Irene Morales is the former employee, who filed her original lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court on March 4, in which she accused Charney of forcing her to perform sexual acts in his Manhattan apartment under the threat of losing her job. Morales also sued American Apparel and its directors, saying they failed to prevent Charney from acting as a "sexual predator."
Now she has filed a second lawsuit which alleges that blogs she was a subject of contained suggestive photographs of the women, some of them nude. The women were forced to pose for the pictures during company photo shoots, according to the suit, which also named company photographer Kyung Chung.
The women claimed severe emotional distress from the suggestion that they filed bogus sexual harassment and assault claims to extort money.
Along with defamation and invasion of privacy, the suit accuses Charney and the company of violating a California criminal law that makes it illegal to impersonate another person on the Internet to inflict harm or commit fraud.
Stay tuned to this case, it should be an interesting one.
