A mailroom supervisor at the Manhattan law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft with a penchant for erotic poems was slapped with a sexual-harassment lawsuit.
He balked at Thorpe’s allegations, calling them “very frivolous.” (Not just frivolous, very frivolous.)
Turner claims he’s just a misunderstood minstrel.
Especially creepy, the poem was laminated and decorated with a picture of a man kissing a woman who resembles Thorpe, court documents say.
When Thorpe, who is married, rebuffed his advances, she says she experienced workplace retaliation. Specifically, she received negative performance reviews and had to leave the company. Turner, who is also married, says he voluntarily left the company and received a severance package. Thorpe is suing Williams Lea for failing to investigate or discipline Turner after she reported the incidents and refusing to scrub the negative reviews from her file.
Let this be a reminder to you to keep your NSFW literary masterpieces at home – especially poems that conclude with, “I’m at your erotic disposal.”
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