Paul Oakenfold responds to allegations of sexual harassment following filing of lawsuit in LA
completemusicupdate.comProducer and DJ Paul Oakenfold has responded to allegations of sexual harassment that have been made against him by a former personal assistant.
Those claims, he insists, are part of a “calculated attempt to tarnish my reputation and extort money”.The allegations were made in a lawsuit that was filed with the courts in LA last week, in which an unnamed woman accuses Oakenfold, his manager Paul Stepanek, and the latter’s companies New Frequency Management and Stepanek Management, of violating her employment rights.The plaintiff says that she began working for LA-based New Frequency Management last October, primarily assisting Oakenfold, which involved working from the DJ’s home. “Throughout plaintiff’s tenure with defendants, and very shortly after starting work for defendants, plaintiff was subjected to sexual harassment by Oakenfold”, the lawsuits claims.It then alleges that on four different occasions, including on the first day the plaintiff was assisting the DJ at his home, “Oakenfold touched his genitals and then masturbated in front of plaintiff when Oakenfold was aware that plaintiff could not escape”.“In each instance of masturbation”, it goes on, “Oakenfold stimulated his genitals with his hand, in close proximity to plaintiff, for plaintiff to see.
On each separate date of masturbation, Oakenfold masturbated for longer periods of time”.On one occasion, the lawsuit claims, this actually occurred in the plaintiff’s own car. “Oakenfold sat in the passenger seat, spread his legs wide, and proceeded to masturbate with plaintiff only inches away, while plaintiff was driving Oakenfold home from the post office.
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