Boxing legend Oscar De La Hoya has been accused of sexual assault in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Los Angeles against him & his tequila brand, Casa Mexico.
A woman who is a former employee of Casa Mexico alleges in the filing that De La Hoya sexually harassed & sexually assaulted her on 2 separate occasions. The lawsuit is a counter complaint filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against Casa Mexico, company executives Michael Gooch & Robert Crossan, DV Capital Partners & De La Hoya.
Casa Mexico organized a company event in Mexico to visit the brand's distillery in March 2020. The former employee alleges that on the first night there she awoke to De La Hoya knocking on her hotel room door. When she opened the door, she said she saw De La Hoya with his pants down around his ankles. She claims he forced his way into her room & got into her bed. Per the suit, the woman pushed him out of her bed & walked him back to his room.
The next morning when De La Hoya failed to show up for a scheduled meeting to tour the distillery, the woman claims she went to his room to wake him and alleges De La Hoya pulled her into his bed and sexually assaulted her.
Shortly after her return to Los Angeles after the trip, the woman says she attended a company party at a restaurant where some people ended up at De La Hoya's home afterward. When De La Hoya was alone with the woman, she alleges that he "revealed & retrieved a sexual object from a stored collection in his house," per the filing. De La Hoya, the woman claims, "forcibly inserted the sexual object into her body."
The woman says she told Casa Mexico executives, but they did nothing to discipline De La Hoya. She says, per the complaint, that she feared retribution from the company if she spoke out about the alleged abuse.
In addition to the claims of sexual harassment & sexual battery, the suit alleges gender discrimination, wrongful termination & negligent & intentional infliction of emotional distress. Casa Mexico sued the woman & company founder Eric Gerardo Leyva-Buccio for breach of fiduciary duty in December, a case that remains open.
De La Hoya, 49, is a former six-division champion & Olympic gold medalist.
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