Glam suit vs. boss
‘Hit on & insulted’
A sexy Manhattan anesthesiologist, whose adventures include jaunts to Dubai and hobnobbing at parties with “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson, claims her boss demeaned her as an “ingrate” and hit on her.
Randa Jaafar, 44, who regales her more than 70,000 Instagram followers with her jet-setting lifestyle, began working for NY Spine and Sport Rehabilitation founder Sireen Gopa in 2016 as an anesthesiologist and pain-management doctor raking in $240,000 annually.
‘Underpaid, insulted’
She was underpaid, insulted and propositioned by her Bronx boss, her Manhattan federal court genderdiscrimination suit alleges.
Gopal awarded her “best costume” at an October 2018 “sexy lingerie” party, telling her the prize “was spending the night in [his] apartment (which was an invitation to have sex with Dr. Gopal),” she said in court papers.
She rejected his proposition and accused him of making “abusive” remarks and “criticizing her for having a lot of male followers” on Instagram.
He allegedly berated the former Cornell University fellow, saying, “Your Ivy League education is not impressive”Go do something that has actual meaning as a real doctor and then we can talk” and “Right now you are an Instagram trigger point chiropractor Dr . . . . when you become a real doctor we can talk.”
Jaafar, seeking unspecified damages, claims the discrimination began after she complained she hadn’t been properly paid, and was dealing with staff and supply shortages. She claims Gopal had cut her share of the revenue she brought in from 50% to 40%.
Jaafar said she was forced to quit in December 2021.
Gopal denied the allegations and said Jaafar filed the suit only because he brought her to court for opening her own business two blocks from his.