We do not engage in discrimination of any kind,” Jill Martin, vice president and assistant general counsel for the Trump Organization, said in a written statement. “The allegations in the lawsuit were meritless. The Trump organization strongly denied the charges. “He’d say, ‘I don’t have any grounds to fire them,’ ” Donohue said. Van der Goes, Donohue said, pushed back when asked to fire people for what he considered unjust cause. “Usually the older girls were not scheduled and some would be upset about it,” said Donohue, who now works for a Pasadena catering firm and also is an actress. Strozier could not be reached for comment by the Southern California News Group.Įventually, Trump didn’t have to make those comments any longer because managers caught on to what he wanted and scheduled more attractive employees to work while Trump was on site. On multiple occasions, she saw Trump tell managers that hostesses weren’t pretty enough, and should be replaced with more attractive employees. That type of behavior from managers wasn’t surprising, Strozier said in her declaration. (van) der Goes that I was disappointed in him as a man and as a father,” she said in her statement. “You can fire us both if that’s what it takes,” Strozier said she told him, according to the court documents.Ī week later, van der Goes came back to Strozier and told her he had a plan to hide the employee in question whenever Trump was at the club. Once she refused to fire her fellow employee, Stellio told her, “You’ll probably get in trouble for this.”Ībout a year later, club manager Mike van der Goes approached Strozier and told her it “would be in (Strozier’s) best interest to fire” the same employee. Trump doesn’t like fat people,” she said in her statement. In 2003, Strozier was told by the then-vice president of the company, Vincent Stellio, to fire the employee because “Mr. The employee, whose name is redacted from court documents, was “significantly overweight,” Strozier said. Hayley Strozier, a co-worker and friend of Donohue’s who was director of catering until she left Trump National in 2008, said in a declaration that she was told to fire an employee because of her weight.
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