Billionaire chief executive and chairman Marc Lasry is suing ex-employee Gina Strum, alleging she carried on a decade-long campaign of harassment, lies, and blackmail and is now trying to illicitly siphon millions from Lasry and his firm.
The suit—filed jointly with his sister Sonia Gardner and the firm they cofounded together, Avenue Capital—lists a litany of alleged grievances against Strum, including obsessive and inappropriate texts to Lasry that he repeatedly rebuffed, even as they tried to placate her with phone calls, meetings, and emails. Lasry and Gardner alleged they suffered through it because they feared Strum would carry out her threats to take down both Lasry and the $12 billion global investment firm he built for 30 years alongside his sibling, the complaint states. For years, Strum allegedly alternated between praising the firm when she felt she was on the receiving end of attention and money, and then menacing them when that stopped.
