Brett Favre, whose final season in a 20-year National Football League career was tarnished by a $50,000 league fine for sending inappropriate e-mails to a former New York Jets employee, is now reportedly facing a sexual harassment suit filed by two other women who also once worked for the Jets.
ABC's Good Morning America website is reporting that Christina Scavo and Shannon O'Toole, both former massage therapists for the Jets, filed suit today against Favre, the NFL team and Lisa Ripi, a woman who hires massage therapists for the team, in the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
GMA says that calls to the Jets about the lawsuit were not immediately returned.
At the time the NFL announced its fine for Favre, it disclosed it had reviewed media reports that Favre pursued two massage therapists who worked at the Jets' facility in 2008, when Favre played for the team. But the league said that claim could not be substantiated because people with "potentially relevant information" declined to be interviewed or cooperate with investigators.
In today's suit, GMA says Scavo alleges that Favre sent text messages to another unidentified massage therapist, asking Scavo and the unidentified woman to "get together" with Favre.
Scavo said that in 2008 while Favre was with the New York Jets, he treated her like a "hanging slab of meat," according to GMA. In the suit, she claims he wanted a three-way with her and another therapist.
Favre allegedly texted the unidentified therapist, writing, "Brett here, you and Crissy want to get together, I'm all alone," according to the lawsuit.
Favre allegedly sent another text message reading, "Kinda lonely tonight, I guess I have bad intentions."
Scavo claimed that after she refused Favre's advances and had her husband, Joseph Scavo, call Favre to demand an apology, both Scavo and the other plaintiff, Shannon O'Toole, were never offered work with the Jets again.
To see the GMA's complete story, you can click here.
Favre last week was fined $50,000 by the NFL for a "failure to cooperate" with the investigation into allegations he sent inappropriate messages and lewd photos to former New York Jets game-day hostess Jenn Sterger.
The league said then that Commissioner Roger Goodell "could not conclude" that Favre violated the league's personal conduct policy based on the evidence currently available to him.
"The forensic analysis could not establish that Favre sent the objectionable photographs to Sterger," the statement said. "The review found no evidence to contradict the statements of both Favre and Sterger that they never met in person, nor was there anything to suggest that Sterger engaged in any inappropriate conduct."
Goodell determined Favre was "not candid in several respects during the investigation resulting in a longer review and additional negative public attention for Favre, Sterger and the NFL," the statement said.
The initial allegations against the 41-year-old Minnesota Vikings quarterback surfaced on the website Deadspin, which posted a video Oct. 7 that included text messages and voicemails allegedly left by the quarterback for Sterger, including one in which he invites her to his hotel. The video ends with several
below-the belt photos — said to be of Favre — which were allegedly sent to Sterger.
A former model who also appeared on the Versus television network, Sterger refused to speak on the record to the website.
Weeks after the story broke, she talked with league investigators and cooperated fully, according to her manager.
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