I often wonder what it’s really like to work for some of these odd-duck billionaires. During the back-and-forth reporting about Bill and Melinda Gates’ divorce, Bill Gates sounded like an absolute pig with his female employees, and I would imagine that probably extended to his household employees too. But what of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan? Clearly, Mark has made tens of billions of dollars from racism, deadly conspiracies, fascism and genocides. But what’s he like as an employer and what’s he like with his household staff? Allegedly, he and Priscilla hire racist, homophobic bigots and they do nothing when their staffers complain. That’s what a new lawsuit alleges:
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have been sued over alleged racist and homophobic abuse inflicted on two staffers by their former household security boss, which is said to have included a dig at Meghan Markle.
Mia King, a black LGBR woman who served as a security operations assistant, and a John Doe, a gay and disabled man who worked as a household operations manager, claimed they were subject to racist and homophobic abuse by the billionaire couple’s former head of security Liam Booth, Business Insider reports.
In their twin lawsuit, filed in San Francisco County, King said Booth would often call her ‘ghetto’ and complain that Meghan Markle, who is bi-racial, ‘polluted the royal blood line’ following her marriage to Prince Harry.
Doe also claimed that Booth, a former Secret Service agent whose race has not been disclosed, allegedly made constant comments about his homosexuality and slapped his groin at a sushi restaurant in 2018.
Other employees had previously witnessed Booth groping Doe’s butt in Zuckerberg’s Montana property that same year and imitating ‘lewd sex acts’ in front him, the lawsuit states. Zuckernberg and Chan’s main property sits in the Bay Area, but they also own homes in Hawaii and Montana.
Booth, a former Secret Service agent who once served in President Barack Obama’s personal protection detail, resigned from Zuckerberg’s family office in 2019 following a probe into the complaints when Business Insider first reported them. Zuckerberg and Chan have refuted these claims, and their personal spokesperson, Ben LaBolt, said in a statement that the company’s internal investigation found no evidence of wrongdoing.
‘As we previously stated when these claims were anonymously leaked to the media over two years ago, our family office follows a strict code of conduct that requires appropriate behavior from all members of our teams. It is our expectation that each of our employees adheres to this code of conduct,’ LaBolt said. ‘Any complaint made to our HR personnel is taken seriously and is investigated and addressed. We are proud of the team of professionals who work in the family office and are confident that these claims, which seek to unfairly disparage our colleagues, will fail.’
Just so we’re clear, the Zucks are not being accused of saying that Meghan Markle “polluted the royal bloodline.” They’re being accused of hiring a man who said that to other staffers. The Zucks are being accused of not doing anything when other staff members complained. Which… checks out, at least from where I sit. I don’t think Mark Zuckerberg would make those kinds of comments himself, but he would definitely stand idly by and watch other people make racist, homophobic comments. Hell, he would create an algorithm to promote that racism and homophobia so that everyone could hear it and read it.
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