The New York City Ballet is the subject of a new lawsuit that alleges it is a “breeding ground for sexual exploitation,” where male dancers regularly both take advantage of female ballerinas, and share explicit photos of them without their consent.
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Alexandra Waterbury (pictured above), a student-dancer at the school, filed the lawsuit against the ballet company itself, as well as her ex-boyfriend Chase Finlay specifically — a man who, until last month when he resigned, was the school’s principal male dancer.
The suit is explosive: in it, Waterbury alleges that Finlay and other male dancers would share pictures and video clips of the sexual encounters they’d had with various female dancers in the company.
In a set of text messages Waterbury allegedly found on Finlay’s computer, he’s accused of writing to another male dancer, “You have any pictures of girls you’ve f**ked? I’ll send you some [hot] ballerina girls I’ve made scream.”
Yikes…
The lawsuit goes on and on with more lewd details about how male dancers, students, and even allegedly a few donors to the ballet company were in on a lewd, sexually explicit group chat sharing pictures and more — and each one is shared in explicit, adult-themed detail based on Finlay’s recovered text messages, the suit claims.
And the lawsuit comes less than a week after the NYC Ballet announced that two of their other male principals — Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro — have been suspended for the upcoming season due to “inappropriate communications.”
The suit is a civil one — meaning Waterbury is seeking financial damages and wholesale change at the school, though she hasn’t contacted the police about any of the lewd allegations. She is reportedly considering filing criminal charges in the future, though.
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Waterbury said in a statement (below):
“Every time I see a little girl in a tutu or with her hair on the a bun on the way to ballet class all I can think is that she should run in the other direction because no one will protect her like no one protected me. Parents have the right to know before they send their children there, before they spend thousands of dollars on tuition, you should know what you’re getting yourself into.”
Wow!
And on her Instagram account yesterday, Waterbury shared her relief that the story was finally out (below):
Whew… that’s a lot to take in.
Shocking, shocking stuff — and something tells us the NYC Ballet is in BIG trouble…
Thoughts, Perezcious readers?! Let us know in the comments (below)…
[Image via Instagram.]
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