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| Naomi Campbell and part owner of the salon Orlando Pita |
Seriously when you read/hear some stories you......... wellnever mind. I know that 'shoe maker get size' but haba!! $800 for a hair cut? If they are so good how come one of their clients Naomi Campbell had that terrible bald patch on her head?
Well someone is suying the owners of her saloon over an alleged racial slur. According to Nydailynews
AN OWNER of one of the most expensive hair salons in the city routinely belittled an African-American hair stylist with racial comments and blasted her for bringing in black and Hispanic clients instead of white ones, a lawsuit charges.
“Black hair doesn’t pay the bills in here,” George Casson, a part owner, is accused of telling stylist Zandra Bennett.
Bennett is suing Orlo, a Meatpacking District salon that charges $800 for a haircut and has celebrity clients like Jennifer Connelly, Kirsten Dunst and Naomi Campbell.
According to court papers, Bennett started as an assistant in April 2010. She was promoted to stylist five months later.
Until she was fired in January 2011, Bennett says in the suit, she was barraged with racial comments from Casson and a receptionist, Alfred Malavo.
She said Casson steered black clients to her, telling her she “doesn’t know how to do white hair” and
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calling Bennett’s hair “nappy.”
Bennett also said Malavo called her names like “blackie” and “n—–ette” and “slave.”
When she was hospitalized for job-related stress in January 2011, Casson fired her by text message.
Bennett is charging that Casson, his partner and the salon’s namesake Orlando Pita and Malavo, created a hostile and discriminatory work environment.
