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Flight Attendant Sues Oprah Company



Oprah Winfrey’s company is being sued by a former flight attendant.

The Chicago Tribune reported that Corrine Gehrls, who worked on Winfrey’s private jet, was fired after claims were made that she had sex on the plane.

The lawsuit alleged that fellow flight attendant Myron Gooch and Winfrey’s goddaughter Kirby Bumpus made the false accusations so that Gehrls would be sacked.

Gehrls and pilot Terry Pansing were fired shortly afterwards for “inappropriate intimate behavior”, the suit claims.

The lawsuit also alleges that Gooch made the accusations after Gehrls and Pansing complained that he refused to work as scheduled, asked for his hours to be changed so he could “attend to his cats”, and insisted on staying in better hotels than the rest of the crew.

Gehrls and Pansing  passed polygraph tests after being fired, but were not reinstated.

The lawsuit seeks more than $75,000 (£46,924) in damages from Gooch, Bumpus and Winfrey’s production company Harpo Inc.

 

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