Dov Charney accused of forcing teen employee to engage in sex act

The alleged victim is seeking $260 million in damages from the CEO of L.A.-based American Apparel (and her former boss). The young woman says in a lawsuit that Charney invited her to his Manhattan apartment on her 18th birthday, opened the door wearing only underpants, and "forced her to go down on her knees just inside the front door and perform fellatio upon him." He then threw her on the bed and made her repeat the same sex act, "nearly suffocating her in the process," according to the suit, filed in Brooklyn Supreme Court. From the NY Post:

Charney allegedly began harassing the woman in August 2007 -- when she was just 17, a high-schooler working as a sales associate in an American Apparel store -- telling her that she would be fired if she did not detail her sexual history, engage in "increasingly explicit" sexual functions and send him sexually explicit pictures, according to the lawsuit. And, he told her that in order to keep her job and be promoted, she would have to have sex with him as soon as she turned 18, the suit says. The pressure of Charney's demands caused her to become "increasingly nervous and depressed," forcing a hospital stay after an "emotional breakdown," the suit alleges.

Charney has been charged before with sexual harassment, but none of those cases was proven in court.