New York Post

My 3-way sex hell at apt. tower

Worker’s claim vs. boss

- By DOREE LEWAK and KATHIANNE BONIELLO

A lesbian carpenter-apprentice working at 220 Central Park South, where a penthouse sold for a record $238 million, says she was forced to have sex with her male boss in the building’s unfinished apartments and bathrooms every week for two years.

Denise Mignott (inset) claimed to The Post that foreman Elvis Philbert demanded she bring her future wife to a hotel for a threesome.

Terrified to lose a good union job, Mignott gave in, she charged in her Manhattan Supreme Court action against Philbert and Woodworks Constructi­on.

“Any time he feels like it, he would demand sex,” she told The Post. “I know I had to do it or he’d fire me.”

Mignott, 34, claims she was raped multiple times in her native Jamaica, where she said “being a lesbian is like a curse.”

She said she began learning her trade in the traditiona­lly male industry in her homeland and discovered that “it’s really rough.”

“Guys come at you every day,” Mignott said.

But nothing prepared her for Philbert, said Mignott, who is seeking unspecifie­d damages.

“I didn’t know what he was capable of,” she said.

In January 2019, Philbert allegedly had Mignott bring her then-girlfriend, Tasheka, for a threesome.

“I told her, ‘If we don’t do it, how are we going to survive?’ ” said Mignott, who was in Carpenters Local 926.

Mignott’s job, which started at $19 an hour and went up to $42 by 2019, financiall­y supported the couple.

Tasheka Mignott, who married Denise six months later, said the encounter with Philbert left the couple, who have no kids, “depressed and terrified.” Denise Mignott’s lawyer, Randy Kleinman, said he did not include the threesome in the legal filing for “brevity.”

Philbert denied the allegation­s.

Woodworks said it conducted a “full investigat­ion” of Mignott’s claims and found them “baseless and without merit.”

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