ESPN a hotbed of misogyny and sexual harassment, says female ex-host in lawsuit

UNITED STATES
Miami Herald

March 5, 2018

By Crystal Hill

Male executives and employees at ESPN kept “scoreboards” naming female colleagues they wanted to have sex with and openly watched pornography on their computers, according to Adrienne Lawrence, an attorney and former legal analyst at the network.

“ESPN is, and always has been, a company rife with misogyny,” said the 93-page sexual harassment complaint filed Sunday in Connecticut federal court.

The suit says male employees made inappropriate comments when Lawrence was around, such as wondering aloud what singer Rihanna must “taste like.”

Lawrence, who started working at the network in 2015, says women at the network are “humiliated, degraded, and forced to navigate a misogynistic and predatory culture.”

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