Selling Sunset’s Bre sued for $12million by former staff over ‘harassment’ and being ‘vulgar’

Earlier in the year, Selling Sunset agent Bre Tiesi was sued by former employees, over her behaviour towards them whilst they worked for her. Now, after season eight of the show has come out on Netflix, Chrishell has said she is no longer friends with her co-star because of the lawsuit claims.

In April, it was reported Bre had been accused of being “vulgar and violent”, as well as allegedly harassing staff members, making homophobic comments and causing “emotional distress”. In court documents obtained by Page Six, it was said the three accusers are each asking for $4,250,000 in damages.

The publication reported Bre’s nanny Lucy Poole, social media manager Amanda Bustard and personal assistant and stylist Kenneth Gomez filed a lawsuit against their former boss in a Los Angeles court. At the time, they claimed they had been subjected to “continuous, pervasive, objectively, and subjectively offensive harassment” during their time working for the real estate agent.

The documents said: “Plaintiffs were harassed, discriminated against, and/or retaliated against on the basis of their sex, gender, and/or sexual orientation, and for having repeatedly reported, and demanded cessation of the harassing, discriminatory and retaliatory conduct.”

As we saw during season eight of Selling Sunset, there have been a lot of fallouts amongst the cast. In a Q&A on Instagram after the episodes dropped, Chrishell said she and Bre are no longer friends, and claimed she had seen some of the lawsuit.

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When asked if she and Bre were still on speaking terms, Chrishell replied to a viewer: “This one has some nuance to it and is a little painful to answer, obviously. There was an element of, I could see where Bre was trying to do the right thing and we are on a reality show, so there are pieces of the puzzle that I could understand. All of that being said, of course I understand where Chelsea is coming from.”

“That’s why I was really caught in the middle of seeing both sides. That being said, there was a lawsuit that came out afterwards and I unfortunately got some insider looks into some of that. I’ll just leave it at that.”

In the lawsuit, Bre’s former employees claimed since leaving their jobs they have “suffered severe emotional distress, loss of earnings, and loss of employment benefits, among other things.”

According to the documents, Lucy Poole “suffers a mental disability” and claimed she was called several names, including a “short bus riding bitch,” a “dodo head” and an “ADHD idiot.” Poole claimed she was treated in a “vulgar and violent” manner “if a task was not performed to [Bre’s] satisfaction” and forced to throw away things in her son’s closet that could “be construed as feminine or girly.”

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Bre was accused of saying to Poole “that her child was not going to grow up to be a fa***t” and the lawsuit claimed this was said with Bre knowing Poole was a member of the LGBTQ community.

Amanda Bustard claimed she was “subjected to inappropriate and violent behaviour” and witnessed Bre “scream” at employees and allegedly threaten them with physical violence. The lawsuit claimed Bre had said things such as “I’m going to kill her” and “I’m going to slam her head against the wall.”

Kenneth Gomez, who is also a member of the LGBTQ community, claimed: “Ms. Tiesi-Moran would repeatedly make derogatory and demeaning comments about members of the LGBTQ community.”

The Tab reached out to Bre’s management for comment but has not yet received a reply. Selling Sunset is available on Netflix now. For all the latest Netflix news, drops, quizzes and memes like The Holy Church of Netflix on Facebook. 

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