Posted on 11/30/2004 10:49:12 AM PST by new cruelty
NOVEMBER 30--A New York woman who briefly worked as a nanny for Don Imus has sued the radio host for wrongful termination, claiming she was canned for bringing a harmless cap gun and pocketknife with her during a trip last Thanksgiving to the family's sprawling New Mexico ranch.
Nichole Mallette, 24, also claimed in her New York State Supreme Court lawsuit, a copy of which you'll find below, that she was defamed when Imus later announced on his program that he had been forced to "disarm" his nanny, whom he labeled as dangerous and a "terrorist." In her complaint, filed yesterday by the lawyer who represented the woman who recently accused Bill O'Reilly of various improprieties, Mallette claimed that she brought the cap gun with her so that she and Imus's five-year-old son could "play cowboys" at the 4000-acre ranch.
As for the pocketknife, Mallette noted that the 1-1/2-inch item was never unsheathed from a leather harness affixed to her belt. In her lawsuit, Mallette alleged that she endured "frenzied questioning" by Imus and his wife Deirdre, who woke her at 1 AM to grill her about the pocketknife and the cap gun, which Mallette said she did not use nor show to Imus's son. After Deirdre Imus told her, "Pack your things, you're terminated," Mallette was escorted off the property at 4:15 AM by a ranch employee and the radio host.
Mallette, a Brooklyn resident, was hired by Imus last October 23 and cared for the star's son at homes in Manhattan and Connecticut, as well as the New Mexico property (according to its mission statement, the "sole purpose" of the so-called Imus Ranch is "to provide the experience of the great American cowboy" to seriously ill boys and girls and children who have lost siblings to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome). Mallette noted that during two separate stays at the ranch, which features a 14,000-square-foot adobe hacienda, "neither sick children nor children who had lost brothers and sisters to SIDS were present," just Imus, his family, and ranch employees.
Along with Imus and his wife, Mallete named as defendants the radio syndicator Westwood One and NBC, which simulcasts Imus's show on its MSNBC cable network.
Makes you wonder...
One of the reasons imus supported ketchup boy was because dizzy tizzy funded imus' wife on some projects.
He does not have a right to defame her on his radio show without giving citizens a right to reallocate his wealth to her in court.
How thoughtful, considering it's for children. ugh.
Where'd she runway to?
If you look carefully you can see the sick kids outside the window shoveling poop.
I'm currently accepting tax-deductable charitable donations for my Ranch for Nymphomaniac Unwed Mothers. Please give generously. Think of the children.
This guy is living proof that an uneducated, no talent individual can rise if he kisses the right ass.
wow. Nice digs.
Doesnt Imus run around with a real gun strapped to him?
So he's bitchin bout a cap gun?
Why did she have the thing..Maybe she just had it in his purse and forgot it? Who knows
And from my experience with nannies, I bet there is another side to this story that will sound a lot different than the filing on TSG.
Imus better get his check book warmed up...
Get a pic of her and the wife side by side and see if thats why wifey had her fired at 415 am
I have always had a gut instinct that this ranch thing was a scam from the get-go. He raised all sorts of donations to help buy the land and build the facilities, but I always had the sense that it was really for his private use, not for the charitable purpose stated to raise donations.
Yeah, that bordello line jumped out at me, too. "ugh" is right.
A pyramid scheme? He's been selling billboard space on the side of barns. If kids aren't there most of the year, this is dishonest.
I think an IRS audit would be in order for the Imus ranch.
Nice teaser line. Tell us more.
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