the ballad of luciano manganella
Once upon the nineties,
Jasmine Sola was one of those local urban chains that sells "premium denim" and Tory Burch flats and upwardly mobile casual wear like that. A story about a
sexual harassment scandal facing this once-beloved chain of fashion boutiques in month's
Boston Magazine, ahem,
touches on a lot of the themes you'll find in the
American Apparel case. Only, you know, like worse. The chain's owner, Luciano Manganella, is accused of shoving his hands down a 23-year-old employee's pants and asking her to teach him the Kama Sutra, using another female employee act as a cover to hide his mistress from his wife, and forcing the human resources director — the fucking
HR director!!! — to blow him.
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