from www.nypost.com – What a Jughead!
The co-CEO of Archie Comic Publications could be held in contempt and tossed in the clink next week for defying a judge’s order to stop harassing her employees.
Nancy Silberkleit, the target of a sexual-harassment lawsuit filed by her own company last summer, denies charges that she berates and threatens employees and likes to shout sexually explicit remarks.
The company’s offices in Mamaroneck, Westchester County, are nothing like the wholesome town of Riverdale, where Archie, Betty and Veronica live, according to the Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit.
In the latest twist, the eccentric exec showed up at the office on Dec. 12 with a former Indianapolis Colt player, whom staffers believed was her bodyguard.
Silberkleit allegedly yelled at the employees while the athlete loomed in the background.
The 57-year-old former schoolteacher claims her co-CEO, Jon Goldwater, has orchestrated the entire mess to oust her.
The Goldwater and Silberkleit families have run Archie comics for generations after Goldwater’s grandfather created the characters in 1941.
Silberkleit, who married into the family, insists that she’s not going anywhere.
According to the complaint, the $125,000-a-year executive has waged an unrelenting campaign of terror since she was brought in to replace her deceased husband in 2009.
Last spring, Goldwater hired an outside human-resources executive who recommended in a report that Silberkleit be terminated immediately.
Silberkleit blasted the report, claiming it was part of a conspiracy to oust her.
Among her alleged antics:
* Barging into a meeting, pointing at four men in the room, and screeching, “Penis, penis, penis, penis!”
* Complaining her “balls hurt” and she needed to “adjust my balls because they are irritating me.”
* Shouting, “All you penises think you can run me out,” and telling a new employee to “stand up and pull down your pants.”
She also allegedly told a female worker that the only reason anyone in the company liked her was because she had “big boobies.”
In court papers, Silberkleit blasted the consultant’s report and said it was comprised of “untrue and unsworn allegations by unnamed employees,” and was nothing but hearsay.
Several of the previously unnamed employees have since provided their tales of woe in sworn affidavits.
Lawyers for both parties declined to comment.