Natalie Grainger, top female squash coach has alleged in an explosive lawsuit that ‘prominent members’ at Westchester Country club patronized the services of prostitutes and also had relations with workers. In view of the allegations, she has been fired!
The details of the lawsuit via the Daily Mail;
An exclusive New York country club fired its head squash coach after she made allegations members were using the club to have rendezvous with prostitutes, a new lawsuit claims.
Natalie Grainger, 45, one of the most famous squash players in the world, says in the suit that a member of the club admitted to paying a female member of her staff ‘not for squash.’ That same worker said she had been raped by the member.
In the complaint, which was filed Wednesday at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, Grainger said that instead of investigating the incidents, she was fired from her $145,000 per year job.
According to the suit, the club charges a $170,000 initiation fee and then yearly dues of $15,000. It’s known for its two championship golf courses and beach club along the Long Island Sound as well its ‘family orientated’ reputation.
The defendants named in the lawsuit are the club itself, Mark Christiana, the board president, and Tom Nevin, the former club manager, who is now the manager of a club in South Carolina.
Grainger says that as soon as she was hired in 2018, she learned that one of her ‘direct reports’ was having a s*xual relationship with a member. The club’s by-laws forbid fraternizing between staff and members.
In 2021, she found out something similar involving a different member and a different squash coach. That member is referred to as being a ‘virtual fixture’ around the squash facility during that time.
Thanks to the affair, Grainger said that the staffer’s work performance suffered. She says the coach would not charge the member for her time spent with him while on the job.
A few months after discovering that affair, Grainger, a native of Manchester, England, said that she discovered a series of text messages that saw members post pictures of women that had picked out for ‘fun.’
The suit alleges that the women pictured in that thread were ‘s*x workers.’ The text messages had been sent to a woman who worked for Grainger.
In the complaint, Grainger said that she sent an email to management complaining that: ‘At least one member engaged in ‘sexting’ – along with other members, including one bizarre instance a trail of messages showing pictures of three ‘call girls’ picked out by one of the members for that evening’s fun.’
A week after that email was sent, Christiana and Nevin ‘demanded Grainger resign’ because the had ‘lost faith’ in her.
When she resisted, the pair threatened to fire for her ’cause,’ Grainger alleges.’
This definitely sounds like a good old boys club.