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While Playboy (NYSE: PLA) executives have never been accused of being straight-laced, one might assume they'd be smart enough, oh, to restrain themselves from groping, "bombarding" with sexually-explicit emails, and subsequently firing a lawyer.
But in allegations that (if true) would surely prove the preconception that the porn industry objectifies women, Chicago divorce attorney Corri Fetman filed suit Monday alleging that Thomas Hagopian, an executive in the digital branch of the publishing empire, sexually harassed her, then canceled her column when she rebuffed him. She seeks $4.5 million in damages, including "gender violence."
If this were the 70s, perhaps Hagopian would be claiming that Fetman gave him the wrong impression; after all, she posed nude and wrote a legal advice column, the 'Lawyer of Love.' And Fetman has a colorful history as an attorney; a billboard for her practice featured scantily-clad men and women with the slogan, "Life's Short, Get a Divorce" (it was pulled quickly), and she reportedly left her previous job in 1995 after being sexually harassed by another attorney. A woman with a history of giving off the wrong signals?
In the 21st century, we probably won't stand for this sort of thing, and I predict a quick time to settlement. However, in the court of public opinion (and, frankly, in her own personal marketing), Fetman's enormous breasts have already featured prominently. How can we take her seriously if . . . go the critics.
Playboy does appear to be taking this seriously; Hagopian left the company last year, and while a Playboy spokesperson didn't say why, she did say "we take these allegations very seriously."
In the 21st century, we probably won't stand for this sort of thing, and I predict a quick time to settlement. However, in the court of public opinion (and, frankly, in her own personal marketing), Fetman's enormous breasts have already featured prominently. How can we take her seriously if . . . go the critics.
Playboy does appear to be taking this seriously; Hagopian left the company last year, and while a Playboy spokesperson didn't say why, she did say "we take these allegations very seriously."
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Reader Comments (Page 3 of 3)
4-03-2009 @ 6:38PM
GladHeAteHer said...
Hey pd39 whats that mean? podunk and your IQ? You know what impression I get when you use the word 'ho'? So now I am judging YOU on that assinine comment. hmmmm THUMBS DOWN!!
4-03-2009 @ 4:51PM
Paul Donelan said...
She won't get a dime.. because she dosen't deserve to.
4-03-2009 @ 5:26PM
Wayne said...
I'm suspecting that every man wants this womans body. Leastwise she thinks they do.
4-04-2009 @ 10:39AM
FOURDOGSLAUGHING said...
who cares ???????????
4-04-2009 @ 11:34AM
Wish Belkin said...
We've seen a fifty two million dollar pair of pants.
Why not a four and a half million dollar pair of mcguffies?
4-04-2009 @ 11:57AM
RRJAMMIN said...
GAWD!!! Can some Judge say, You Have Got To Be Joking... Take your bogus law suit to the cleaners and have it cleaned... Throw it out.
This lawsuit has put women who really have a legitimate problem a million years back.
She doesn't get her way and walla a suit is pending. She wrote and was a feature spread in Playboy. All of a sudden someone made a remark, didn't agree with, or that offended her? Get real.
If any money is paid I will be totally disappointed in the Judical system. It's time the courts say "ENOUGH".
4-04-2009 @ 9:16PM
progolfer445 said...
who cares again?
4-04-2009 @ 1:45PM
Stanley Harris said...
Fetman is no doubt a bimbo, but today's society treats bimbos like they were Mother Mary. As for Hugh Hefner, he never even had a date before he started Playboy, so he in effect has never had a woman that he didn't have to pay for. Put more plainly, no woman would even touch Hefner until he had enough money to make his ugly face and zero personality dissapear behind a pile of dollars.