A New York advertising executive has sued her boss for harassment after he called her “Susan Boyle” at a company party.
A former advertising director at Firmenich perfume has filed a $6 million lawsuit against her manager, Herve Piernini, for comparing her to singer Susan Boyle and harassing her about her appearance in front of other employees, the Daily Mail reports.
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The manager, Herve Pierini, allegedly called the employee "fatty," and berated her with other degrading language in the office and at a company parties. The abuse grew so stressful, Ziv says, that she suffered a brain hemorrhage.
The law suit reads:
In January 2010, Pierini taunted Ziv at a party given by an executive of the [company's] biggest client at her home by repeatedly referring to Ziv as 'Susan Boyle,' a Scottish singer who is often taunted in the media as being old, fat and ugly.
Susan Boyle quickly gained fame after shocking judges with an astounding performance of Les Miserable's "I Dreamed A Dream" on "Britain's Got Talent" in 2009. The video of her performance has received over 131 million hits on Youtube.
Ziv says that after the Boyle comparison, the harassment grew worse.
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