Have you ever heard of Lisa Falcone? Me neither, but she’s über rich, über crazy, über dumb, and über racist. Lisa is married to Philip Falcone, a billionaire hedge fund guy, and she once pissed off the elite of the Hamptons by letting her horses use the pristine beaches a s a litter box.
And now, well, she says she’s allowed to use the n-word with good reason.
The Falcones have been sued by their former personal chef Brian Villanueva for discrimination and violation of New York labor laws. According to the lawsuit, on July 13, Brian brought his girlfriend, who is black, to the Falcones’ Hamptons home to help him out at a party where Alicia Keys and her husband Swizz Beatz were in attendance. After the event, Lisa told Villanueva how “articulate” his girlfriend was and everyone knows what that means. But Lisa continued:
“Your girlfriend speaks very well. She seems educated. I would describe her as a chocolate-covered marshmallow.”
Black on the outside, white on the inside. Villanueva says he was visibly offended, and yet Lisa went on:
“Do you use the word ‘n*gger’ at home with your girlfriend?”
Villanueva asked Lisa to explain what she meant, and she decided to bring up Alicia and Swizz saying they were not as well-spoken:
“I meant she speaks really eloquently. Alicia [Keys] doesn’t speak that way. She didn’t have an education and was just discovered by Clive Davis when she was fifteen years old. Swizz [Beatz] definitely doesn’t speak that way either.”
That day, Villanueva, for some reason, served the Falcones lunch, and then quit because of the racism, and says in his lawsuit:
“Rather than accepting Plaintiff’s resignation, Defendant Lisa Falcone asked Plaintiff not to resign and stated “talk to my black friends” (seemingly referring to Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz, both of whom were at the beach with the Falcones at that time), and emphasized “they will tell you that I am not racist.”“
Cuz she has black friends.
It’s like Countess LuAnn once famously sang:
♫ ♪ Money can’t by you claaaaaaaaas ♪ ♫
Or common decency.
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