Los Angeles- The number of women porn king Larry Flynt has offended in his lifetime may be in the millions – just the sort of number the Hustler publisher may have to pay former employee Cheryl Oldham.
Oldham claims in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court that one of her tasks was to keep Flynt’s wife, Elizabeth, out whenever he would be “engaged with prostitutes behind closed doors … for his own personal sexual gratification,” according to court papers.
The women’s “loud, obnoxious, and repeated noises of sexual gratification” that came from these encounters, Oldham claims, “disrupted the office” and created “a hostile working environment.”
Oldham further claims in the papers that a manager instructed her that if Elizabeth Flynt, who keeps an office on the same floor of the building, “ever attempted to gain access to Flynt while engaged with prostitutes behind closed doors that [Oldham] was to divert and distract Mrs. Flynt at all costs until Flynt could get the prostitutes out of the building.”
Oldham even had to schedule some of the prostitutes, she claims in the filing.
When she supported another employee’s sexual-harassment suit last year, Oldham claims Flynt raged at her: “You’re overweight, unattractive, over 50, and probably unable to find another job. So why would you do this to me?”
Oldham was moved to a distribution center in Chatsworth, Calif., and given menial tasks, which she claims caused stress and anxiety.
“Mr. Flynt has not yet been served with a copy of Ms. Oldham’s complaint, so he cannot comment directly on the specific allegations being made by Ms. Oldham,” said Flynt’s lawyer, Paul Cambria, in a statement. “Mr. Flynt categorically denies any allegations that he engaged in sexual intercourse with prostitutes in his office, or that Ms. Oldham was in any way retaliated against, as has been reported.”
