Ex-NY1 Reporter Adele Sammarco's sexual harassment case is getting stranger by the minute. Today her claim that coworkers frequently called her "Big Butt Booty" was questioned by fellow staffers, saying the nickname was actually "Big Butt Baron," and belonged to male news assistant Baron Gullette. Upon hearing this, the Post reports that Sammarco ran out of the courtroom in tears.
Former cameraman Marvin Hoffman testified that "Adele would say, 'Baron, you got a big butt.' I thought they were cool enough that they could joke about it." Baron Gullette also claims Sammarco was racially insensitive to him, saying she once likened him to Morgan Freeman's character in "Driving Miss Daisy." However, the biggest blow to her case may have come from Ex-reporter Gary Anthony Ramsay, who was fired after calling in to NY1s live call-in show. Sammarco claims that while giving her a ride home from a bar one night, Ramsay pinned her down and proceeded to "ram his tongue down my throat so hard it felt like it was almost at my Adam's apple." Ramsay said he does not remember what happened. "I don't have a clear recollection of whether I tried to give her a kiss or not," he told the court, though he had previously admitted to giving her a "peck on the cheek."
He also said that the configuration of gear shifters in his car would have made it impossible for him to reach over and pin her down as she described. He told the court, "She told this story because she thought that someone would believe it. She's not the first to blame her problems on a bogeyman and she won't be the last." These testimonies come a day after a video surfaced which shows her seemingly enjoying a doctored photo of her with big breasts, which had been her biggest piece of evidence, in what may be the wackiest sexual harassment suit since Paula Jones.
