Jersey Shore’s Angelina Pivarnick Sues FDNY Supervisor for Sexual Harassment
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Jersey Shore star Angelina Pivarnick is taking authorized motion towards a lieutenant inside the New York Metropolis Fireplace Division.
In response to court docket paperwork obtained by E! Information, Pivarnick, who works as an EMT in Staten Island, is suing Lt. Jonathan Schechter and the Metropolis of New York for sexual harassment. Within the grievance, Pivarnick claims two of her supervisors, together with Schechter, subjected her to a “sexually hostile work surroundings” for greater than a 12 months between 2017 and 2018.
“The sexual harassment that Pivarnick skilled included repeated and unwelcome sexual advances, degrading feedback about her physique, vulgar sexual feedback, inappropriate questions on her personal relationships and, in a single occasion, the groping of an intimate a part of her physique with out her consent,” the lawsuit states.
Following two separate incidents in 2016 and 2017, the 33-year-old claims within the go well with that she suffered a office harm, which resulted in her being assigned “gentle responsibility” on the station. Throughout that point, one other supervisor by the identify of Lt. David Rudnitzky allegedly harassed Pivarnick on a number of events.
In 2018, Pivarnick filed a grievance relating to Rudnitzky’s alleged conduct with the FDNY’s Equal Employment Alternative. Pivarnick then acquired a letter indicating Rudnitzky would obtain “applicable self-discipline” for his actions, however in line with the paperwork, he “has not suffered any important penalties for his remedy of Pivarnick, and he continues to work as a Lieutenant on the Rossville Station.”
The lawsuit additionally particulars a number of inappropriate textual content messages allegedly despatched to Pivarnick by Schechter round that very same time.
“Your ass seemed superb and I want I wasn’t working or in uniform as a result of I positively would’ve kissed these superb lips,” the go well with claims he texted her at one level.
Throughout one other alleged incident in Could 2018, Schechter groped Pivarnick’s buttock and “made contact along with her vaginal space” in a car parking zone exterior the station. Pivarnick then filed a separate grievance towards Schechter.
On account of coming ahead with the allegations, Pivarnick claims she has been subjected to retaliation by the management of the station.
Pivarnick, who’s looking for financial damages for psychological anguish and humiliation, additionally launched the next assertion to E! Information: “I’ve filed a grievance in federal court docket as a result of I suffered extreme sexual harassment whereas working for EMS and was retaliated towards by my administration once I complained internally. It ought to go with out saying that what I skilled has nothing to do with tv or leisure. Like all ladies, I’m entitled to be handled with dignity and respect at work, and I mustn’t have to just accept undesirable sexual advances, crude feedback about my physique, or bodily assault. Going ahead, on the instruction of my legal professionals, I cannot be commenting about this case additional besides as required in court docket.”
The FDNY declined to touch upon the matter.