Brett Favre and the New York Jets are being sued for sexual harassment by Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole, who use to work as massage therapists for the Jets.
Favre, who announced on Sunday that he intends to retire, played for the New York Jets in 2008 after coming out of a brief retirement. He retired again, and then came out of retirement to play for the Minnesota Vikings.
Favre was fined $50,000 by the NFL last week for failure to cooperate in an investigation that alleged that he sent inappropriate photos and voice mails to the former Jets game-day host, Jenn Sterger. On Monday, a sexual harassment lawsuit was filed against Favre and the Jets at the New York State Supreme Court, where Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole are seeking unspecified damages. According to the lawsuit, Scavo said that Favre proposed a threesome swinging with her and another team masseuse and that he wrote a text message to the other masseuse that read, “Brett here, you and Crissy want to get together, I’m all alone.”
The two women claim that they weren’t re-hired by the Jets after they complained about the incident. Lisa Ripi, allegedly told Scavo that the complaint should be handled internally and should not be taken to the press or to the courts. Ripi is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
The suit also states that the Jets encouraged “a hotbed of sexual harassment, sexism and inappropriate behavior.”
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