Bartender sues LA’s Soho Home claiming boss drugged, raped her

A bartender at a swanky members-only membership in downtown LA has filed a bombshell lawsuit alleging she was drugged and raped by her supervisor — who she claims as soon as informed her “you’d be pregnant by now” if they’d met sooner.

The girl, recognized in court docket papers as Jane Doe, sued Soho Home and supervisor Leonard Marcelo Vichique Maya in Los Angeles Superior Court docket Wednesday, accusing them of sexual harassment, retaliation, and different claims tied to her employment at unique Soho Warehouse.

In accordance with the criticism, reviewed by the LA Occasions, Doe started working as a bartender at Soho Home restaurant Berenjak in September 2025.

Nearly instantly, she alleges, Vichique Maya subjected her to “repeated sexual advances and unwelcomed bodily touching.”

The swimsuit claims he made “quite a few feedback” about her appears to be like, propositioned her to be his “hook-up buddy” — remarks allegedly made inside earshot of coworkers, in accordance with the court docket paperwork.

After about two weeks, Doe says she reported his conduct to 2 male managers, together with the membership’s ground supervisor and meals and beverage director, however “neither took any semblance of corrective or investigatory motion.”

Her lawyer, Nick Yasman of West Coast Trial Legal professionals, blasted the corporate in a press release.

“That is as egregious an occasion of callous company indifference to office sexual violence that anybody can expertise,” Yasman stated.

The criticism alleges the scenario escalated following a September 13 “team-bonding” occasion.

Doe claims she turned disoriented after consuming with colleagues, blacked out and later awoke bare in Vichique Maya’s condo.

“Paralyzed and speechless regardless of her consciousness slowly returning, Plaintiff was condemned to easily watch in horror as [sic] MARCELO repeatedly raped her inanimate physique,” the swimsuit states.

Doe says she reported the alleged assault the subsequent day.

In accordance with the submitting, her normal supervisor informed her “these items occur between coworkers” and later stated, “I’ve a restaurant to run; I can’t have it blow up on me,” when she insisted she might now not work with him.

Regardless of informing three managers she had been “raped,” Doe alleges she continued to be scheduled alongside Vichique Maya. After submitting a criticism with human assets in December, she says she was positioned on indefinite depart whereas he remained on the job.

A month later, she was informed her report was “uncorroborated” and he “wouldn’t be disciplined.” She resigned in February.

Based in London in 1995, Soho Home has expanded to dozens of places worldwide and counts high-profile buyers, together with Ron Burkle and Ashton Kutcher.

The firm went non-public final 12 months in a $2.7 billion deal involving Apollo International Administration. The Submit reached out to Soho Home for remark.

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