Former crewmembers on Physician Odyssey have sued twentieth Tv and mother or father firm Disney over alleged sexual harassment and retaliation on the set of the medical drama.
Caroline Mack, Alicia Haverland and Ava Steinbrenner, in a lawsuit filed on Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court docket, declare they have been targets of an “unchecked marketing campaign of sexual harassment” by which their supervisor bombarded them with sexual feedback and undesirable touching. They are saying they have been in the end fired after they complained of the alleged misconduct to administration.
The plaintiffs reported to assistant prop grasp Tyler Patton, whose supervisor was his spouse Tammie Patton. Tyler Patton was beforehand concerned in a lawsuit from a former Common Community Tv worker, who superior sexual harassment and retaliation allegations on the set of Home. In that grievance, the worker Carl Jones claimed Patton groped his genitals and invited ladies from numerous manufacturing departments to have interaction in sexual exercise.
The lawsuit particulars a tradition on the set of Physician Odyssey by which Tyler Patton, who’s not named as a defendant within the grievance, and his male colleagues repeatedly commented on their sexual preferences, with the intention of watching ladies of their orbit react uncomfortably to the commentary.
In a single incident, Tyler Patton allegedly referred to one of many former crewmembers as “mumbles” and advised her to “swallow the cum earlier than you speak.” One other concerned him asking aloud to different workers why “nobody had broke her” but, the lawsuit claims. He often responded to benign statements with “that’s what she stated,” a sexual joke popularized from The Workplace, the grievance acknowledged.
The grievance claims that Tyler Patton often texted others pornographic supplies, grabbed ladies crewmembers’ butts, positioned his arm round their necks and gave lingering hugs.
The lawsuit alleges that Tyler Patton texted the props division, together with his spouse, prop grasp Tammie Patton, a hyperlink showing to reference a brand new story that former President Joe Biden was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. After they clicked, the crewmembers say they have been directed to a webpage exhibiting a unadorned male with an erect penis. Tyler Patton subsequently walked away and allegedly exclaimed, “If I wasn’t fucking the boss, I’d be fired.”
Mack later reported the incident to the human assets division and her union, which confirmed that twentieth Century and Disney have been conscious of the alleged misconduct, the lawsuit says. This included complaints of the manufacturing mishandling duplicate firearms.
Tyler Patton was terminated shortly after the grievance was issued, says the lawsuit, which notes that Tammie Patton began to retaliate towards the plaintiffs by assigning them demeaning duties and threatening their employment. Your entire props division, exterior of Tyler Patton’s alternative, was later laid off in response to persevering with complaints.
twentieth “then nearly instantly employed a complete new set of workers to interchange Plaintiffs and different Props Division workers for the Dr. Odyssey Season 1 undertaking,” states the grievance. “Clearly, no ‘lay off’ had occurred. As an alternative, Defendants wiped the Prop Division’s slate clear to keep away from having to cope with any remaining employee-relations points tied to Tyler Patton’s and Tammie Patton’s misconduct.”
Since then, the plaintiffs declare they’ve been blacklisted from engaged on twentieth and Disney productions.
The lawsuit brings claims for sexual harassment, retaliation, wrongful termination and negligent hiring, amongst different claims. It seeks unspecified damages.
twentieth and Disney didn’t reply to requests for remark.
The primary-year drama from twentieth and Ryan Murphy Tv, starring Joshua Jackson as a cruise-ship doctor, stays in limbo as the one present ABC scripted sequence nonetheless awaiting phrase on its future.