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For the first time, the public can now see one of the incidents listed in a discrimination case against J. Walter Thompson's former CEO, Gustavo Martinez.
Filed by the agency's communications chief, Erin Johnson, the discrimination suit against Martinez had alleged that he made several inappropriate references to rape. One of Johnson's examples, from a 2015 agency event in Miami, is now posted for public viewing.
In the clip, which you can watch below, Martinez jokes about being concerned in the hotel elevator that he would be "raped…and not in the nice way."
The law firm of Vladeck, Raskin & Clark released the video after federal District Judge J.
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