Ex-Employee’s Lawsuit Calls Financial Firm ‘Alcohol-Fueled Sexual Cauldron’

A Long Island, New York financial advisory firm is a “boiling, alcohol-fueled sexual cauldron,” with certain offices reserved for for “sexual hookups” only, according to a former employee who says the company’s top executives fashion themselves after convicted fraudster Jordan Belfort, the real-life “Wolf of Wall Street.”

Senior-level partners at Coastline Wealth Management took bets on who would be the first to bed receptionist Sasha Kemnitzer after she was hired, according to a $15 million lawsuit filed Tuesday and obtained by The Daily Beast. In it, Kemnitzer says she was was the victim of a “campaign of serial and depraved sexual harassment by high-ranking members” of the firm “from nearly the onset of her employment.”

One of the execs became fixated on Kemnitzer to the point of stalking, with “ceaseless in-person advances, phone calls, voicemails, and endless text messages professing his love” for her, the lawsuit alleges. Another portrayed himself as a mentor of sorts, when in fact he was simply trying to get Kemnitzer “to capitulate sexually,” at one point telling her, “I bet you’re a great fuck,” the lawsuit states. Kemnitzer’s “repeated attempts to rebuff them only served to provoke their frenzy,” the suit contends.

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