CEO sex harassment
By Ria Sharma

In 2010, Hewlett Packard (HP) had sacked its Chairman, President and CEO, Mark Hurd, for using company funds to hire a ‘contractor’ who was paid as much as $5,000 per session to meet and greet executives at company functions. The boss also invited her to be dinner company. While the contractor Jodie Fisher denies a sexual relationship, she has been quoted as saying that she felt ‘pressurized’ to have sex.  Mark was a man with the golden touch and HP lost billions of dollars in market value on news of his exit. He is also married with two children.

Just before his sacking, Mark was finalizing a new $100 Million multi year employment contract with Hewlett Packard which he led to great success.

Jodie Fisher has starred in R rated movies as well as a reality show in which she along with other contestants had to win the heart of a tennis player.

Mark had personally interviewed Jodie for this ‘marketing’ role.  Later, she would charge him with sexual harassment.

Mark Hurd was sacked in 2010, but only this weekend documents have emerged on how he sexually harassed Jodie Fischer.  All Things Digitial’s Kara Swisher scooped the documents (in the form of Jodie’s attorney letter to ex CEO Hurd) part of which reads

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The first incident described in the letter occurred in October of 2007 at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Atlanta, when Hurd and Fisher had dinner together after an HP event. Hurd told Fisher that he was about to fly to China to meet Madame Wu Yi, China’s vice-premier.

“As you were walking back to the Ritz, you invited Ms. Fisher to come up to your room. You said there were some documents that you wanted to show her pertaining to Madame Wu Yi,” the letter read.

It then describes how a distraught Fisher called her Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor seeking advice before going to Hurd’s room. Fisher, the letter noted, had been clean and sober 20 years by this time. The sponsor said that Fisher didn’t have to do anything that compromised her integrity.

Thus reassured, she went up to Hurd’s hotel suite, where Hurd asked her to stay the night. Fisher’s reply: “Absolutely not. I barely know you and you are my boss.” An hour later, after more alleged pressure from Hurd, Fisher said she wanted to leave and did, the letter said.

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The documents also reveal that Hurd tried to impress Fisher by showing her an ATM receipt of his bank balance which was in excess of $1 Million.

Will some CEO’s on multi million dollar salaries do anything to sleep with someone?  It seems so.  According to the document: “He tried another tack, offering her money, asking if there was anything she needed. Hurd confessed that he felt he could spend the rest of his life with her, but would have to see “how the chemistry in bed was.” “