Accused of intimate assault, previous Tinder President sues their accuser for defamation
In August, an old vice president at Tinder recorded a lawsuit alleging that Greg Blatt, the onetime chief executive of Tinder as well as its mother or father organizations complement class and IAC, intimately harassed and assaulted their at a business Christmas time party in 2016.
On Thursday, Blatt registered a defamation suit against their accuser, Rosette Pambakian, and against Tinder’s co-founder and previous President Sean Rad, alleging that sexual power supply accusations are included in a-smear promotion designed to give Rad and Pambakian leverage in a different multibillion-dollar legal fight on top of the worth of Tinder stock.
“Rad and Pambakian have actually attemptedto weaponize an essential social movement,” the defamation suit alleges, “undermining the predicament of genuine victims of intimate misuse by creating untrue accusations in cynical search for a $2 billion windfall.”
Orin Snyder, an attorney for Pambakian and Rad, called Blatt’s suit “a latest reasonable for IAC/Match as well as their former CEO. They consistently retaliate against and smear a victim of sexual attack and also the individual who reported they. Their unique assaults are based on lies and papers which happen to be removed from perspective. When all the research pertains to light, it should be apparent what happened right here. It’s shameful these general public enterprises were continuing to full cover up the reality.”