Madison Square Garden settled another lawsuit Wednesday, settling out of court with Courtney Prince, the former head of the New York Rangers pep squad.
Prince filed suit in 2004, claiming the Garden offered no protection from male executives who treated cheerleaders like sex objects.
The Garden fought the allegations, rejecting an $800,000 deal proposed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and questioning Prince's mental health in court documents.
Prince claimed she was fired after complaining that a Rangers public relations employee and a former New York Times reporter propositioned her for a threesome.
She also charged that the employees at the Garden grilled her about the skaters' sexual habits, ordered skaters to stuff their bras and lose weight, and bought alcohol for underage cheerleaders.
The Rangers launched a vicious counterattack, alleging in court documents that Prince suffered from bipolar disorder and was prone to "hypersexuality."
The Garden's lawyers charged that Prince was obsessed with the skaters' looks, groped them and used crass language to get them to act sexier.
Prince's case got a boost from Anucha Browne Sanders, who claimed that Rangers execs had a "book" in which they recorded their sexual fantasies about the skaters.
Browne Sanders, a former Knicks executive, won an $11.5 million sexual harassment lawsuit against the Garden, claiming she was fired after she complained about Knicks coach Isiah Thomas and the atmosphere in the front office.
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