A former agent and assistant to APA chief Jim Gosnell has sued the agency and four individuals, including Gosnell, for sexual harassment and battery, wrongful termination and other alleged miscondu…
has sued the agency and four individuals, including Gosnell, for sexual harassment and battery, wrongful termination and other alleged misconduct.
The plaintiff, identified in court papers only as Jane Doe, filed the suit Wednesday in LA Superior Court . She says her career plans were derailed by a series of actions by the agency. Her “dream of becoming a well-respected talent agent was quickly and cruelly dashed before it could even truly begin by a toxic, pervasive and sexually abusive environment fomented by the senior management at one of the nation’s leading talent agencies,” the complaint alleges.and Josh Humiston.
Any possibility of holding them accountable, the suit claims, was undermined by Gosnell conducting an alleged affair with the head of human resources. The suit also claims the plaintiff was sexually assaulted by Michael Hammond, who is COO of Collins Avenue Productions, an APA client and producer of unscripted shows like. According to the suit, the plaintiff was told not to report the assault to law enforcement.
Text messages from Humiston and Santana — many of them extremely explicit — are reproduced in the complaint. The fact that employees “felt brazen enough to put their bad behavior in writing is reflective of how toxic, tolerant and protective of APA’s culture of sexual and racial discrimination is,” according to the suit. Gosnell routinely berated her, it adds, using coarse language, throwing office objects at her and obstructing her progress from the assistant level to becoming an agent.
APA did not have any initial comment on the suit when contacted by Deadline. Hammond did not respond to a message left at the Collins Avenue offices.
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