Female former Goldman Sachs employees that sued the behemoth financial institution in 2010 are now seeking class action status, claiming that Goldman treats its female employees like second-class citizens as a matter of course. Color me shocked.

Bank of America has to cough up $39 million after settling a lawsuit alleging that its Merrill Lynch brokerage arm systematically discriminated against female employees, passing them over for promotions, shutting them out of lucrative partnerships, and otherwise blocking their pathways to professional success. That…

Three women have filed suit against Bank Of America/Merrill Lynch, alleging a systemic pattern of discrimination. Alas, no big surprise there.

• Why mess with a good thing? Longtime Calvin Klein Jeans face Eva Mendes is back, again with model Jamie Dornan, for spring. And Calvin Klein Collection has again booked 15-year-old Polish model Monika Jagaciak for its spring ads. [WWD]

• In the wake of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing and the Merrill Lynch buyout, the Dow dropped 504 points, or 4.4%. By the way, unless you've got more than $100,000 in one of them or money in the market you're going to need soon (or are reliant on Merrill, Lehman or AIG for your employment), you're probably going…

It's not about who we thought it was about, so it's actually not scary, but for a minute there... [Reuters]

Why can't more rich people be like Cindy McCain? Not with the strumpet makeup, I mean, but with the white guilt? Today a LA Times profile made us officially decide to like Cindy, who grew up a rich spoiled rodeo queen cheerleader in Phoenix and then one day went on a scuba trip and came back a crying, caring…

• Eliot Spitzer was fucking hookers the whole time he was fucking Wall Street assholes, maybe even longer, and he still hasn't resigned, probably because he is such a whore he wants to soak up the whole week's news cycle for himself and make us all forget there's a campaign to cover... [NY Post]
  
• So yeah, as you can…