‘Under the deck’ Ster Gary King complained for sexual abuse by a crew member

Gary King, a star of Bravo’s ‘underlying sailing yacht’, was accused in a court case on Tuesday of the sexual abuse of a makeup artist in the show.

The woman, Samantha Suarez, claims that she and her then boyfriend, camera operator Gray Duddleston, both were fired because they talked about King’s alleged misconduct.

Pair sued King, Bravo and NBCUIversal in Los Angeles Superior Court. They are represented by Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos, who have submitted a series of similar suits for the past 18 months as part of “Reality account”.

Bravo refused to comment on this story, while representatives for Banijay did not respond immediately VarietyThe request for comments.

Suarez claims that she was “hostage in a hotel room” by King on July 3, 2022. According to the suit, King Suarez asked to sleep with him in his bed after he got drunk while he had completed interviews for the show. He reportedly told her that Duddleston did not need to know what was happening. The suit states that she left the room after she had received him safely when she was assigned to do.

Suarez later was given the task of supplying water and snacks to the cast. When she came to King’s room, he is said to have answered the door in his underwear and would not take the items, so she would walk past him to put them down. According to the complaint, he grabbed her when she tried to leave the room. She was able to get away and open the door, but he overwhelmed her and closed it again, says the suit.

Suarez claims that she was “certain that she would be raped” until she received a phone call from another crew member that she managed to accept it, after which King let her go to prevent him from being heard by someone else, although he followed her while she was while she Made her way through the hallway. Allegedly, still dressed in underwear, King Suarez took from behind and asked her what was repeatedly wrong while she rubbed her back and ‘grinning’.

Suarez described the incident to Duddleston, who reported it to a co-executive producer, who, according to the suit, led the next day between Suarez and several producers. Showrunner Courtland Cox is said to have sent an e -mail on the same day on the same day in which he said King had admitted that he had admitted the allegations of Suarez and was warned that he would be dismissed if a similar incident would take place.

After Suarez had officially reported the incident to Production Company 51 Minds, it is said to have to sign a liability and liability drop and acknowledge that she would not receive therapy or treatment as a result of the incident.

Duddleston later saw King “the bikini tops of two female cast members without their permission, Lewd make comments to a female audio technician and take the genitals of two male camera operators,” says the complaint. When Duddleston reported that 51 Minds reportedly responded in the Walkie-Salkie system by opening an investigation into inappropriate Walkietalkie use of Duddleston’s side instead of the consequences for King.

Suarez was ‘effectively abandoned’ after the incident with King, says the complaint, not the production of production for almost two weeks. She was reportedly reprimanded by HR’s head of the parent company of 51 Minds, Banijay America, to limit the investigation by talking to colleagues about what happened when they contacted her to ask about her absence of Set .

The suit says that the crew members under the deck are asked to return to the show “List that was known to the cast in the months after the completion of each season and was usually reserved for crew members kicked off the show for inappropriate behavior. “

The investigation was concluded on September 16, 2022, with the HR head writing of Banijay that HR Check-ins would increase on 51 minds’ future productions and that the company would “expand the conversations about sexual harassment and respect in the workplace” next to Suarez $ Offer 1,000 for therapy.

Rolling Stone reported About the allegations of Suarez in August 2023, after which King was removed from the line -up of speakers in Bravocon that year, although he has stayed a cast member in the show.

The complaint includes claims of sexual battery, unlawful termination, false prison sentence, retribution and negligent recruitment.