Another Activision Blizzard worker files sexual harassment lawsuit

polygon.com:

Another Activision Blizzard employee is alleging in a new lawsuit that the company failed to prevent sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace. The complaint, filed last week in the Los Angeles Superior Court, details alleged repeated sexual advances and harassment from an Activision Blizzard manager — who is also named as a defendant in the lawsuit — as well as revenge porn and sexual battery. Daily Mail first reported the lawsuit.

The Activision Blizzard employee, who is named as Jane Doe in court documents, details her experience with manager Miguel Vega throughout the 24-page complaint. She’s represented by high-profile lawyer Lisa Bloom, who said Tuesday on Twitter that her firm, The Bloom Firm, is representing eight women with sexual harassment claims against Activision Blizzard. Bloom held a press conference in December after filing a lawsuit on behalf of an IT worker named Christine. Bloom has said each of these eight women will file their own individual lawsuits “to make sure they’re fairly compensated,” according to dot.LA.

“Activision Blizzard is a massive video game company with a massive sexual harassment problem,” lawyers for Doe allege in the lawsuit. Lawyers described Doe’s incidents in detail:

Activision Blizzard’s failure to curb sexist and harassing conduct emboldened manager Miguel Vega to abuse, belittle and insult Ms. Doe by making comments to her about oral sex, masturbation and orgasms, threatening her job if she would not consent to sex, mocking her breasts, and commenting on other female employees’ attractiveness. Mr. Vega also repeatedly threatened to expose a compromising photo of Ms. Doe.

Activision Blizzard has not yet responded to Polygon’s request for comment.

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