Activision Boss Loses Legal Battle Over Sexual Harassment CaseS
Activision boss Bobby Kotick has lost a legal stoush with
renowned lawyer Patricia Glaser over a 2007 sexual harassment
case involving Kotick's private jet and one of its former flight
attendants.  Kotick and Andrew Gordon, the head of the LA branch
of Goldman Sachs investment bankers, run a company called Cove
Management, which was created to essentially run a private jet
the two men co-owned. One of their pilots was a man by the name
of Phil Berg.  Anyway, it was alleged by Cynthia Madvig, a
former flight attendant on the jet, that in 2006 Berg pressured
her into being his "arm candy"; in other words, a public escort,
someone to join him at dinner parties and the like. Madvig
declined, at which Berg allegedly "set out to make life
miserable" for her, including one instance where she says he
made her clean the plane's toilet while he stood there "leering"
at her.  Madvig told this to Gordon, who did nothing, and two
months after reporting the i