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Ex-employee sues Frank Miller and his girlfriend
Kimberly Cox and Frank Miller
One of Frank Miller’s former employees is suing for discrimination and mental anguish, claiming she was repeatedly mistreated by the comic creator’s girlfriend Kimberly Cox.
The New York Post reports that Joanna Gallardo-Mills, who was hired as Miller’s executive coordinator in November 2008, accuses Cox of verbal abuse, smearing her work area with feces, throwing phones at her, using a hammer to destroy her printer, and leaving dirty underwear and a “used menstrual pad” by her desk.
Gallardo-Mills says that after she complained, Miller agreed to allow her to work from home. However, she asserts that her complaints ultimately cost her the job.
Cox, who had a small role in Miller’s 2008 adaptation of The Spirit, told the newspaper she’s “shocked” by the lawsuit, as Gallardo-Mills “was offered a very heavy settlement and declined.”
18 Comments
AJ
October 10, 2012 at 10:09 am
wut
Carey
October 10, 2012 at 10:25 am
oh good God this is funny shit…
Edward Kaye
October 10, 2012 at 10:26 am
Sounds like a job I had once
Zan
October 10, 2012 at 10:27 am
“What? You can’t just abuse people then buy them off? I’m shocked!”
Thad
October 10, 2012 at 10:31 am
“Cox, who had a small role in Miller’s 2008 adaptation of The Spirit, told the newspaper she’s “shocked” by the lawsuit, as Gallardo-Mills “was offered a very heavy settlement and declined.””
Now see, it seems to me that she probably would have included something about not having smeared shit and period blood on her employee’s desk if, you know, she hadn’t done those things.
I know if the word “feces” appeared in a lawsuit against ME, that would be the very first thing I would address, not settlement talks.
Ramone
October 10, 2012 at 10:43 am
Miller is a rank weirdo wingnut of the highest order. It doesn’t surprise me to read this. Unless it was second hand, I stopped buying his books a long time ago.
Kory Stephens
October 10, 2012 at 11:08 am
Girlfriend?! I thought he was married to Lynn Varley?
Rob
October 10, 2012 at 11:18 am
Clearly she has a case otherwise they wouldn’t have tried to settle. Looks like Miller is going to have to pony up some cash.
Kevin Melrose
October 10, 2012 at 11:20 am
Kory: Miller and Varley divorced around 2005.
Hysan
October 10, 2012 at 11:35 am
Wow. Not only is this story bizarre, but that is a creepy photo (I hope it’s somehow out of context).
I agree that my first response would be “Really? Feces?”
Shifty
October 10, 2012 at 12:33 pm
Makes you wonder if the woman that Miller dates has any affect on how he writes women…
Monkey Si, Monkey Poo
October 10, 2012 at 2:29 pm
So this happened around the time of Miller’s last major work (Ass)”Holy Terror”?
MattComix
October 11, 2012 at 6:35 am
He’ll blame this on “I-Pad babies”.
Ian Thal
October 11, 2012 at 3:25 pm
Considering that Miller’s own public statements on society have come to sound progressively more and more like the things said by his more satirical characters back in the 1980s, is it any wonder?
Chris
October 11, 2012 at 5:42 pm
Dindi Gallardo is a former Miss Philippines representative to the 1993 Miss Universe Pagenat. She is also an actrees from the Philippines.
Its good she didn’t settle. Anybody should never be subjected to that! Much more to a beauty queen and an actress from Ther Philippines who is just wanting to have a normal life in the states.
The Boy With A Herve Villechaize Tattoo
October 11, 2012 at 8:57 pm
I’M THE GODD@MN SHATMAN!!!
Anti Racist
October 13, 2012 at 3:44 pm
@ Chris – Good Point.
Throw shit on a Filipino, we get back at you a cargo full of shit back at you! Never mess with a Filipino..AND NEVER MESS WITH OUR ENGLISH ACCENT!
One more thing….AMERICANS ARE NOT JUST WHITE FOLKS.
dib
December 21, 2012 at 11:53 pm
the girlfriend was shocked she didnt take the settlement despite it bearing a huge sum???
stupid.
thinks she can buy off some employee for putting s*** and used napkins on her desk.