Joining the mile-high club is a dream to which many aspire.
But it appears that breaking out your o-faces while you’re working on board Oprah Winfrey’s private jet won’t get you the thumbs up from Oprah herself.
As a matter of fact, it’ll get your ass fired. Possibly illegally!
A wrongful termination lawsuit has been brought against Oprah Winfrey and her company Harpo Inc., by the mogul’s former stewardess Corinne Gehrls.
Gehrls is firing back at allegations that she was boinked by married pilot Terry Pansing during a flight with Winfrey on board the Big O’s posh private jet.
She says these claims resulted in their July 7 termination.
Did Oprah can a flight attendant for o-facing on board?
Also named in the Chicago defamation suit are fellow flight attendants Myron Gooch and Kirby Bumpus, who happens to be the daughter of Oprah BFF Gayle King.
The canned stewardess says the two “falsely told Winfrey and Harpo” that she and Pansing “were observed having inappropriate intimate contact inside the plane.”
This gives new meaning to the term cockpit, are we right?
Gehrls has vehemently denied the allegations, going so far as to take – and pass – a polygraph test on the advice of her lawyer. Pansing reportedly did the same.
O’s ex-employee is seeking $300,000-plus in damages.