Times Square's Hawaiian Tropic Zone is a place described as one step away from being a strippers club, where waitresses and staff run around in bikinis.
Four of the female staff members a former senior manager, a bartender, a hostess and an office assistant say they had a sex fiend as a boss who harassed them and assaulted them while upper management ignored the situation.
These women are now suing for $600 million.
The New York Post reports that according to the lawsuit, "The top manager - married 40-year-old dad of two Anthony Rakis - "is a rapist and sexual predator who was given full rein by the Riese Organization to sexually assault, molest, batter and rape the female employees," ending with "In that sense, he was not unlike a pedophile at a day-care center."
In September 2006, the suit alleges, Rakis drugged and brutally raped ex-senior manager Giulietta Consalvo in a taxi.
Two days later, the suit claims, he said: "I am so sorry, my behavior was so disgusting. It wasn't me. That was the person I was a long time ago. I used to be a very bad person, but my wife turned me around."
The suit alleges Rakis begged her to "please think about my wife," who was pregnant at the time.
Several of the women eventually filed police reports, according to the suit.
Rakis lost his job months after the alleged attack, the suit says.
Reached by phone yesterday in Alexandria, Va., where he has since relocated with his family, Rakis denied the charges.
"These are false allegations. This is all kind of a shock to me, to be honest with you," he said.
If the allegations prove true, this guy is a prime candidate for physical castration.
Off with his head!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (The lower one, of course)
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