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Waitresses Fired for not Being Tall
Enough Two
waitresses claim in a lawsuit that they were fired from the one-time Boom Boom
Room at the Standard Hotel in Manhattan USA because they didn’t meet the club’s
new requirements for "willowy, svelte and statuesquely tall runway models.”
The plaintiffs, Faye Rex and Stephanie Jaggers, claim they were fired after the
hotel remodeled its Boom Boom Room and renamed it the Top of the Standard, the
New York Daily News reports. Their lawyer, Richard Roth, says the night club
didn’t treat his clients the same as male employees.
After the remodeling, the night club "made a conscious decision to remove all
cocktail waitresses who were not tall, extremely slender and extremely good
looking," the suit says, according to an account by the New York Post. Rex and
Jaggers seek more than $1 million in damages.
The Daily News has photos of both plaintiffs. “They're beautiful women, but
they're not tall and that, apparently, is a big crime," Roth told the Daily News |