‘Dateline’ Producer Sues NBC For Being Used As Sexual Bait

A former NBC producer is claiming that she was used as sexual bait while working for the show’s Wild, Wild Web series. Her job required her to “serve as bait for targets.” One of those targets was a person known as the Sperminator.

According to NY Daily News, former producer Kimberly Lengle, 33, claims that she was, “abused, ridiculed and threatened” as she chased after assignments her boss, Dan Slepian would send her on. The lawsuit claims that some of these assignments forced Lengle into dangerous situations to capture interesting stories on Internet sex ads. Most of her assignments repeatedly required the producer, “to engage in sexual role play and serve as bait for targets.”

The former NBC producer filed papers in a Manhattan Supreme Court against her boss. The legal documents state that Lengle’s boss exclusively sent her out to investigate stories where she had to respond to “sexual ads” or “put her own ads on the internet,” while insisting that she had to use her own photo despite the dangers involved in this action.

According to the documents the cases happened from December 2012 to May 2013. The former producer said that the only reason why she endured this treatment is because her boss “abused, ridiculed and threatened her.”

The court papers continue to describe the NBC producer’s experience:

“As part of the story development process, the producers required her to engage in sexual role play and serve as bait for targets. Over time, this pressure intensified and became more overt.”

In court documents the NBC producer said that Dan Slepian went even further by secretly filming a meeting that took place in Las Vegas with a man who promised “better sex with Oxycodone and Xanax.” This particular assignment never aired for Wild, Wild Web.

Kimberly Lengle explained another assignment found her in a Las Vegas brothel. During this assignment her boss had her meet several cops in order to get tips on how to be a prostitute. During this assignment Slepian chastised her for not dressing sexier.

The treatment didn’t stop when she decided to step down from her position at NBC. According to Lengle after departing in May of 2013 she received text messages from a target of one of the assignments who sent a message saying, ‘Fat b–ch..Burn. You got it?”

When the former producer went to complain against her boss she was not supported which lead her to quit. Although her boss did not respond to the allegations NBC came forward in a statement:

“We took this freelancer’s allegations very seriously and determined that her claims were entirely without merit. We will vigorously defend our position in this case.”

It’s not specified what kind of damages Lengle is seeking.

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