‘Now It’s Time to Repay Me’: Oil Tycoon Accused of Demanding Sex From Employees – By Kate Briquelet (dailybeast.com) / Nov 13 2017
An 85-year-old oil mogul in Denver, Colorado has been accused of groping and harassing female employees, then allegedly firing them when they rebuffed his advances.
One accuser claims in a lawsuit that Jack Grynberg, a self-made petroleum tycoon and Holocaust survivor, bought her a new house, then demanded she repay him with sex. When she stopped having sexual contact with him, she says, he fired her.
Another woman says Grynberg pulled her into the company’s locker room and put his hand under her bra. And, according to a third accuser, Grynberg ordered her to clip his toenails while he sat in his underwear.
The allegations are part of an ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit against Grynberg, and they come as Grynberg also fights his wife and adult children in court for control of his companies, the Denver Post reported.
Grynberg’s attorneys did not return messages left for comment.
“There’s strength in numbers,” Elwyn Schaefer, an attorney for the accusers, told The Daily Beast. “With what’s going on around the country these days, everyone is a lot more cognizant of how common this is.”
“Weinstein, Trump, Roger Ailes, Bill Cosby,” Schaefer added of headline-grabbing sexual misconduct allegations. “No one knew how explosive this issue was until the #MeToo movement started. [There’s also] lesser known people, who still have lots of money and power. I would put Grynberg in that category.”
PB/TK – It’s not as high profile of all the current allegations however it’s just as weird
