said, “Any suggestion of wrongdoing related to the management changes announced today is meritless.”
In a complaint filed in the Southern District of New York, Gotthelf alleged that her former boss, Col Allan, who served as editor in chief from 2001 until 2016 when he retired, “delighted in” degrading women, often referring to women in news stories as “skanks” or “stupid women,” and allegedly calling one Post editor a “sneaky lesbian.
Gotthelf said the abuse worsened after she refused Allan’s advances, with Allan on one occasion ripping up a list of story ideas she’d prepared and yelled at her to “get the fuck out” of a meeting, in front of her mostly male colleagues. She reported his behavior to HR and claimed this is when, in 2016, he was forced to, although the publication’s owner, Rupert Murdoch, did not acknowledge the reason at the time, instead lauding him for “many years of exemplary service.
After Allan’s departure, according to the lawsuit, others at the company began diminishing Gotthelf’s power, “in retaliation for her complaints about Mr. Allan’s sexual harassment.” She said she was sidelined as managing editor from making newsroom decisions and that younger men with less news experience had more say in news coverage than she did.
In 2019, the publication re-hired Allan, who Gotthelf claimed resumed his abusive behavior towards her and forced her to take down a story about E. Jean’s Carroll’s rape allegations against Donald Trump, calling the claims “baseless shit.” She said she complained to HR and was told that if Allan “tells you to do something, you do it.”decision to rehire Col Allan after he sexually propositioned Ms.
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