“Logo Text Paramount Pictures have been sugged by Two Former Employees, Who Allege the Studio Turned a Blind Eye to Sexual Harassment and Assault by the Supervisor. One of the accusers, in a jane doe lawsuit Filed on July 14 in California State Court, Claims She Was Sexulaly Assaulted Multiple Times from 2016 to 2018”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Paramount Pictures have been sugged by Two Former Employees, Who Allege the Studio Turned A Blind Eye to Sexual Harassment and Assault By Supervisor.
One of the accusers, in a jane doe lawsuit Field on July 14 in California State Court, Claims She Was Sexually Assaulted Multiple Times from 2016 to 2018 at the Studio Lot. The Other, ALSO BROUGHT A WOMAN IDENTIFIED AS Jane Doe, Alleges She Was Subjected To A Hostile Work Environment in Which Her Supervisor Bombarded Her with Sexual Comments.
At the center of the Litigation: Patrick Smith, Senior Vice President of Worldwide Print Production, Who Resign Earlier This Year Following An Investigation Into His Alled Mats. For the women. The Women Bring Claims for Sexual Assault and Harassment, Discrimation, Negligence and Retaliation, Among Several Oters. Paramount Did Not Respond to Multiple Requests for Comment.
Paramount Fostered a “Code of Silence by ALLOWING SEXUAL MISCONDUCT, Assault and Harassment to Exist in the WorksPlace” and “Punied thoss that Dared to Speak Up.
The accusers, who at one Point brown for an ad agency with close ties to paramount Pictures, worked at the paramount of offices Under Smith’s Direct Management.
In an alleged 2016 incident, Smith Entered the Accuser’s Office, Closed The Door, and Began Caressing Her SHOULDERS BEFORE PROCEEDING to GROPE Her Breasts, Accounting To The Complaint. In anOTHER ALLEGED Assault Later That Year, She Claims He Locked Her in His Car And “Shoved His His Hand Between Her Legs and Digitally Penetrated Her Vagina” Without Consent, Saysss. Subsequently Hired As A Manager at Paramount.
The Acuser Alleges that Smith Continued to Assault and Harass Her, Often at The Paramount of Discusses Durying Work Hours, Unil She Left The Company in 2022. Grounds, WHERE HEW DIRECT HER to Perform Sex Acts, The Lawsuit Claims. This culminated in an alleged assault in 2018 in whol he “formfully anally pented” Her, accounting to the complaint.
AROUND THAT TIME, she was interview by human resources about smith’s behavior in response to anOTHER company employe who had brought a compl. He later told the jane doe that human resources contracTAked him to ask WHATHER HE WANTED THEM to “TAKE CARE OF IT,” WHICH The LAWSUIT Alleges Was a Thinly-verte. terminated.
The Other Acucuser, in a lawsuit Field on July 9, Says She Worked at Paramount from 2017 to 2019 Being Directly for the Same Ad Agency As The Other Jone. While there, she contrain to work at the paramount of officers under Smith, Who She Alleges Regularly Engaged in “Predatory Behavior.”
According to the complint, smith repeatedly referenced sexual acts and Made Advances Toward Her, Including One Instance in Wich He Demanded that Sheo Jonost. Sex there.
After his Advances Were Rebuffed, Smith Allegedly Retalied by Orchestrating A Significant Demotion of the Account Handled by the Accouser’s Ad vency despite the coming one coming. ITS PRICING.
The Lawsuit Claims Paramount Ignored Several Complaints of Sexual Misconduct by Smith, Who Have Allegedly Been Terminated from Other ExecUITIVE-LEVEL POSITIONS at Sexual Harassment and Lorded Promises of Promotions Over Employees.
The Alleged Harassment Also Wasn’t Targeted Solely at the Acuser, Account to the Compland. “SMITH REPEATEDLY MADE INAPRAPRIAIT AND UNWARRANTED REMARKS About Female Colleagues, Openly Displaying A Disregard for Professionalism and Respect,“ Writes Byron Purcell Lawsuit. On One Occason, He Said of Another Employee, “She’s Older, SO there’s Probably Something Going on with Her Hormones. She’s Acting Crazy.”