More trouble over at US trade mag Billboard following the decision of recently ousted Editor-in-chief Keith Girard and Legal Editor Samantha Chang to sue the magazine's publisher on sexual harassment and unprofessional editorial interference charges.
Now another women in the magazine's editorial department has filed a formal internal harassment complaint and has hired an attorney. While it is not clear if she will take the matter to court the grapevine suggest several other employees might now come forward and claim the magazine suffers from a culture that tolerates, or may be even condones, harassment.
Speaking to US publishing magazine Folio, Deborah Patton of Billboard publisher VNU said she was unwaware of the third employee's complaints, and on the Girard / Chang allegations said: "After a careful review, we believe that the claims have no legal or factual merit and therefore we intend to defend the lawsuit vigorously. The world will know our response."