New York Daily News

Forever harassed by store bigs: suit

- BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS

A FOREVER 21 store is a perpetual hotbed of sexual harassment, a suit charges.

Mickael Louis says he suffered extensive harassment from his bosses while working at Forever 21 in Brooklyn, including comeons such as “I love muscular black guys like you” and “Ibet you have abig d--k.”

The same Kings Plaza Forever 21 store was rocked by discrimina­tion allegation­s last year, when a transgende­r woman named Alexia Daskalakis sued the company charging managers called her “disgusting” and a “hot mess” during her transition — then fired her without explanatio­n.

The man who made passes at Louis, manager Patrick Walmsley, also showed Louis cell phone videos of him having sex with men, the lawsuit, filed Thursday in Brooklyn Federal Court, claims. `

While Walmsley constantly addressed Louis as “Honey,” another manager came up with a different nickname—“Nutella.” The manager who allegedly used the “Nutella” nickname, Andy Liu, also called him and other black people “ghetto,” the suit says.

Liu also told Louis, “Look out for the black people, they are going to steal,” the Brooklyn resident alleges.

Louis, who was hired in January 2014, says he was forced to quit in April 2015 because he couldn’t handle the bigotry any longer. “It’s not that I wanted to leave, but at a certain point, I had to go,” he told the Daily News.

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