HP Sexual Harassment Accuser's "Skin Flick" Background Is Utterly Irrelevant
LatestThere are plenty of lingering questions around the resignation of HP CEO Mark Hurd following sexual harassment claims, but one thing is clear: You’re about to hear a lot of shit-talking about his accuser’s “skin flick” background.
Jodie Fisher was hired by HP as an independent contractor to hold events; The New York Times describes her role as “introduc[ing] him to customers and keep[ing] him company.” She accused him of sexual harassment but said she had never had sex with him and that she was “surprised and saddened that Mark lost his job over this.” HP’s board has said he lost his job despite their finding that he had not violated the sexual harassment policy, because the subsequent investigation found he had falsified expense reports and tried to cover up his relationship with her.
What was his relationship with her? That’s not clear from the reporting so far. But anyone covering this particular business story now has a juicy morsel of scandal now that Fisher has now voluntarily disclosed her identity, via (of course) her lawyer Gloria Allred. She was in movies. With sex in them! And on Age Of Love, trying to get a man. You know what that means.