Why companies take days, not months, to act on sexual allegations
by Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times
Dec 01, 2017
3 minutes
Allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment swirled for years around former American Apparel founder and CEO Dov Charney.
As early as 2004, a reporter from Jane magazine wrote that Charney masturbated in front of her. (In an interview with The Los Angeles Times in 2008, Charney said he thought the conversations were "two people having a private time.") A year later, former employees filed lawsuits that claimed he fondled himself in front of them or appeared in the office only in his underwear.
It wasn't until summer 2014 that the Los Angeles company's board
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