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A former lawyer at the movie studio behind "The Hunger Games" says a boss she once viewed as a father figure demanded she be his sex slave and subjected her to nonconsensual sexual contact, but that she stayed quiet about it for years because she feared losing her job and never working in entertainment again.
Wendy Jaffe told The Associated Press on Tuesday that her mind would shift to "minimizing damage" and a mode she described as "spinning plates" to conjure ways to stop Lionsgate's longtime general counsel, Wayne Levin, without embarrassing him.
Levin's alleged behavior led to rumors around the office that they were having an affair and bullying from her colleagues, Jaffe said.
When the sexually abuse stopped, Jaffe said Levin exerted his power in other ways _ loading her up with so much work it escalated her blood pressure to the point of cardiac distress.
"One night he, we were both working late. I was in a different wing of the building and he had walked over which itself was unusual. And he asked me to follow him and he brought me into a closet that was next to a room where there was an editing bay. So it was like a walk in size closet with the sofa and a little table. And that's when he first told me that I was going to be his slave and he wanted me on my knees and to crawl to him," said Jaffe.
Jaffe finally complained about Levin after leaving the studio in 2016 and said she incurred some of the fallout she had long feared.
Stock options she was entitled to were suddenly gone from her account, Jaffe said, and after working there for two decades there was no one who would write her reference for potential employers.
Levin's lawyer said Levin would not respond "in the press."
Lionsgate, which noted Levin's departure "for health and personal reasons" in a November 2017 regulatory filing, said it doesn't comment on specific personnel actions.
In a statement, the studio said it takes sexual harassment allegations seriously, investigating them thoroughly and taking appropriate remedial action.
"We take sexual harassment allegations very seriously, investigate them thoroughly and independently and take
appropriate remedial actions," the studio said.
Jaffe met Levin while she was a student and he was an adjunct professor teaching entertainment law at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
She was a second-year student, he was an adjunct professor teaching entertainment law. He hired her as a law clerk.
Jaffe left Lionsgate in 2016. The company paid her a $2.5 million settlement.
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