Showbiz
Winfrey sued after plane sex allegations
Published Sunday, Oct 11 2009, 04:14 BST | By Catriona Wightman
Rex Features
The Chicago Tribune reports that Corrine Gehrls, who worked on Winfrey's private jet, was fired after claims that she had sex on the plane.
The lawsuit alleges that fellow flight attendant Myron Gooch and Winfrey's goddaughter Kirby Bumpus made the false accusations so that Gehrls would be sacked.
Gehrls and pilot Terry Pansing were fired shortly afterwards for "inappropriate intimate behaviour", the suit claims.
The lawsuit also alleges that Gooch made the accusations after Gehrls and Pansing complained that he refused to work as scheduled, asked for his hours to be changed so he could "attend to his cats", and insisted on staying in better hotels than the rest of the crew.
Gehrls and Pansing reportedly passed polygraph tests after being fired, but were not reinstated.
The lawsuit seeks more than $75,000 (£46,924) in damages from Gooch, Bumpus and Winfrey's production company Harpo Inc.
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