Angelina Pivarnick is burning mad!
The Jersey Shore star filed a complaint of sexual harassment last year against members of the New York City Fire Department, but according to her nothing was done about it — so she’s taking it to court.
For those who don’t know, the Dirty Little Hamster became an Upstanding Little First Responder — she has been working as an EMT with the FDNY for years.
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Unfortunately during that time not one but TWO separate supervisors sexually harassed the reality star, according to a new legal filing obtained by E! News.
The lawsuit names Lt. Jonathan Schechter and the City of New York itself. Pivarnick says as her supervisor Lt. Schechter subjected her to a “sexually hostile work environment.”
The lawsuit states:
“The sexual harassment that Pivarnick experienced included repeated and unwelcome sexual advances, degrading comments about her body, vulgar sexual comments, inappropriate questions about her private relationships and, in one instance, the groping of an intimate part of her body without her consent.”
Angelina claims she was sent several inappropriate text messages by Schechter while he was her superior — something we assume she won’t have any trouble proving.
Seriously, harassment over text message? How dumb can you get??
One such message quoted in the lawsuit read:
“Your ass looked amazing and I wish I wasn’t working or in uniform because I definitely would’ve kissed those amazing lips.”
Ew.
The worst alleged incident came in May of 2018, when Angelina claims Schechter grabbed her butt in the parking lot outside the fire station and in the course of that nonconsensual groping “made contact with her vaginal area”
Double Ew.
According to the legal docs, Schechter was actually the second supervisor Angelina was forced to file a complaint about.
During a period in 2017 in which she was on a “light duty” assignment following a workplace injury, she claims then-supervisor Lt. David Rudnitzky also harassed her on multiple occasions.
In 2018, she filed an official complaint with the FDNY’s Equal Employment Opportunity and says she received a letter in response informing her Rudnitsky was facing “appropriate discipline.”
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However, per her suit, the Lieutenant “has not suffered any significant consequences for his treatment of Pivarnick, and he continues to work as a Lieutenant at the Rossville Station.”
Moreover, Angelina says she was the one punished, retaliated against by the station.
In a statement to E!, she says:
“I have filed a complaint in federal court because I suffered severe sexual harassment while working for EMS and was retaliated against by my management when I complained internally. It should go without saying that what I experienced has nothing to do with television or entertainment. Like all women, I am entitled to be treated with dignity and respect at work, and I should not have to accept unwanted sexual advances, crude comments about my body, or physical assault. Going forward, at the instruction of my lawyers, I will not be commenting about this case further except as required in court.”
Angelina is seeking monetary damages for mental anguish and humiliation she suffered as a result of the alleged harassment.
The FDNY has not commented on her accusations.
[Image via Angelina Pivarnick/Instagram/PNP/WENN.]
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