‘Shore’ I got groped!
TV star-turned-EMT slaps FDNY
A “Jersey Shore” starturned-Staten Island EMT was groped by one of her supervisors — and pestered by another about how many guys she slept with on the hit MTV show, she alleges in a new lawsuit.
Angelina Pivarnick, 33, claims Lt. Jonathan Schechter sexually harassed her while she was at the FDNY’s Rossville station in 2017 and 2018, according to her complaint filed Monday in Brooklyn federal court.
“Schechter incessantly subjected Pivarnick to unwelcome sexual advances, as well as comments about her body and physical appearance,” including in a slew of lewd text messages, the suit states.
“Your ass is amazing and I wish I wasn’t working or in uniform because I definitely would’ve kissed those amazing lips,” the suit claims he texted her in September 2017.
On May 2, 2018, Schechter allegedly “grabbed and squeezed her buttock” in a parking lot outside the station and “made contact with her vaginal area.”
The ex-reality TV star “made it clear” that Schechter should never touch her but later that day he allegedly texted: “That ass! If you only knew the thoughts I had in my mind,” the suit says.
When she wasn’t friendly to him, he put her on cleanup duty or other unpleasant assignments, the suit claims.
Meanwhile, Lt. David Rudnitzky — who is not named as a defendant in the suit — “apparently believed that he could speak to Pivarnick at work in sexually graphic and vulgar terms” because she appeared on episodes of a new “Jersey Shore” season in 2018.
“How many guys on ‘Jersey Shore’ have you f--ked?” he asked in March 2018, the suit claims.
Pivarnick claims she filed complaints against both men with the FDNY’s Equal Employment Opportunity Office and was told by the office that the complaints were “credible.”
It’s unclear what, if any, disciplinary action was taken against the lieutenants.
Pivarnick claims she was retaliated against for filing the complaints by other brass at the station, including threats of reassignment and being denied her preferred shifts.
New York City Law Department spokesman Nicholas Paolucci said the agency would review the case.
Schechter and Rudnitzky couldn’t be reached for comment Tuesday.