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    NEW YORK -- Two massage therapists sued Brett Favre on Monday, claiming they lost their part-time jobs with the New York Jets after complaining about sexually suggestive text messages from the veteran quarterback.

    Claiming they were subjected to sexual harassment and job discrimination, Christina Scavo and Shannon O'Toole are seeking unspecified damages from Favre, the Jets and a team massage coordinator.

    Although the women don't say they received any messages directly from Favre, he referred to Scavo in a message proposing a meeting with her and a third, unidentified massage therapist, the lawsuit says.

    "Kinda lonely tonight," Favre added in a subsequent message to the third masseuse, the lawsuit said. "I guess I have bad intentions."

    The Jets declined to comment. Favre's agent, Bus Cook, didn't immediately return a telephone message.

    The lawsuit arrives five days after the NFL fined Favre $50,000 for not being forthright in an investigation into allegations that he sent lewd text messages and photos to former Jets game hostess Jenn Sterger when they both worked for the team in 2008.

    The league's investigation went on for months as the three-time MVP staggered through his 20th NFL season, fighting injuries as he led Minnesota in a disappointing season. Favre's consecutive-starts streak was snapped at 297 games in December, and he sat out the Vikings' final game Sunday, a loss to the Detroit Lions. Afterward he said he's retiring -- for good, this time.

    The NFL also reviewed media reports that Favre pursued two massage therapists who worked at the Jets' facility in 2008, but the league said that claim couldn't be substantiated because people with "potentially relevant information" wouldn't cooperate with investigators. O'Toole's and Scavo's lawyer, David Jaroslawicz, said he told investigators about the information his clients had.

    The two women worked for years at the Jets' training camp and for various players individually, sometimes giving massages at players' homes, according to the lawsuit. O'Toole brought Scavo into the Jets' fold, Jaroslawicz said.

    After Scavo and an unidentified colleague gave massages at the training camp in 2008, Favre sent the colleague a text message saying, "Brett here you and crissy want to get together I'm all alone," the lawsuit said.

    Jaroslawicz declined to identify the massage therapist who allegedly received the messages.

    Scavo told her husband, Joseph, about the messages. He promptly told Favre to back off and apologize, according to the lawsuit.

    The husband got a brush-off from Favre, and his wife and O'Toole were blackballed by the team, the lawsuit says.


    The Jets stopped calling the women for work, initially offering such excuses as having moved the training camp, Jaroslawicz said.

    After the allegations about Favre chasing Jets masseuses surfaced in media reports, the team's massage coordinator, Lisa Ripi, sent Scavo a series of e-mails calling Favre "a pervert" and ripping her for not having kept the matter quiet, the lawsuit says.

    "There are ways to handle things in a professional manner and ways to be compensated not in public. ... All this nonsense is unnecessary," Ripi wrote, according to the lawsuit. "For sure feel horrible that u had to go thru that w a pervert. ... He was wrong on all counts...and we cldve helped u a lot more at that time."

    Meanwhile, Ripi told O'Toole to "keep your mouth shut" and declared that neither O'Toole nor Scavo would ever work for the team again, the lawsuit says.

    Jaroslawicz said his clients had held off on suing while awaiting the results of the NFL investigation, but they decided to go ahead after the probe ended in what they saw as a token fine.

    Allegations about Favre's below-the-belt behavior initially surfaced on the website Deadspin, which on Oct. 7 posted a video that included text messages and voicemails allegedly left by Favre for Sterger, including one in which he allegedly invites her to his hotel.

    NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell determined that Favre was "not candid in several respects during the investigation" but "could not conclude" that the quarterback violated its personal-conduct policy based on the evidence he had, the league said in a statement Wednesday announcing the fine. Forensic analysis failed to establish that Favre sent the objectionable photographs to Sterger, the league said.

    "Clearly, (the massage therapists) were just as dissatisfied with the NFL's decision as we were. Or lack of a decision, for that matter," Sterger's lawyer, Joseph Conway, said Monday. He wouldn't say if Sterger also was planning a lawsuit.

    Favre has consistently refused to answer reporters' questions about the allegations.

    While being buffeted by questions about his behavior, Favre also has been battered by injuries to his ankle, chin, ribs, back, head and throwing shoulder -- the one that forced the famously hardy 41-year-old quarterback to miss a start Dec. 13 against the New York Giants.

    Favre sat out the season finale because of a concussion and said the game would be his last. Fans have heard that before -- Favre also retired in 2008 with the Green Bay Packers and 2009 with the Jets, only to return both times.

    Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press

  • #2
    haha "no happy ending for you"

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    • #3
      Like this isn't obvious money hungry whores hard up for cash.

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      • #4
        Maybe, but I'd be surprised if the whole story is totally fabricated.
        Originally posted by Broncojohnny
        HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by That_Is_My_El_Camino View Post
          Maybe, but I'd be surprised if the whole story is totally fabricated.
          Sounds more like prodding from the Sturger camp to me, to try and get more heat on the old man. Whether or not he did anything, I don't know, and really don't care, but it's funny how this kind of shit always comes out well after the fact, and that is because they realize they might be able to get some cash. If what they're saying is true, and they were truly bothered by it they would have made this shit public right after it happened, or at least perused a case against him right after it happened, not over 2 years later.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Lone Sailor View Post
            Sounds more like prodding from the Sturger camp to me, to try and get more heat on the old man. Whether or not he did anything, I don't know, and really don't care, but it's funny how this kind of shit always comes out well after the fact, and that is because they realize they might be able to get some cash. If what they're saying is true, and they were truly bothered by it they would have made this shit public right after it happened, or at least perused a case against him right after it happened, not over 2 years later.
            I think the Sterger thing really did happen. These bitches are just along for the ride. The Sterger thing had been out for nearly a YEAR before ESPN latched on to it. And apparently, it took these other two twats squawking for the Sterger thing to gain any steam.
            Originally posted by BradM
            But, just like condoms and women's rights, I don't believe in them.
            Originally posted by Leah
            In other news: Brent's meat melts in your mouth.

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            • #7
              So, the only difference is they still want his money, they just don't want to jerk him off?

              I would seriously have to say that "Your honor, I don't mind paying, I just want her to tug my cock first"

              I want to know if the messages continued AFTER they told him to stop. If so, no harassment.

              When did it become so wrong for a rock star to act like one?

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              • #8
                Guys have been hitting on chicks forever. When did this become a legal matter? I guess the penis pic might have been a little over the top, but saying you're lonely and have bad intentions isn't anything out of the line. Unless you're talking about killing somebody.
                "Any dog under 50lbs is a cat and cats are pointless." - Ron Swanson

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                • #9
                  Originally posted by poopnut2 View Post
                  Guys have been hitting on chicks forever. When did this become a legal matter? I guess the penis pic might have been a little over the top, but saying you're lonely and have bad intentions isn't anything out of the line. Unless you're talking about killing somebody.
                  Not a crime until it happens.

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by poopnut2 View Post
                    Guys have been hitting on chicks forever. When did this become a legal matter? I guess the penis pic might have been a little over the top, but saying you're lonely and have bad intentions isn't anything out of the line. Unless you're talking about killing somebody.
                    They said they lost their jobs after they complained about sexual harrisment.
                    Originally posted by Broncojohnny
                    HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by That_Is_My_El_Camino View Post
                      They said they lost their jobs after they complained about sexual harrisment.
                      oh really!

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                      • #12
                        Tiger got caught and now its Favres turn. Keep sexting and you will be caught, sucks foer these two morons because they have money to avoid all this shit...
                        Originally posted by Silverback
                        Look all you want, she can't find anyone else who treats her as bad as I do, and I keep her self esteem so low, she wouldn't think twice about going anywhere else.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by That_Is_My_El_Camino View Post
                          They said they lost their jobs after they complained about sexual harrisment.

                          Sounds like they need to be suing the Jets organization, and the Jets organization alone.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by BOOSTED32V View Post
                            Tiger got caught and now its Favres turn. Keep sexting and you will be caught, sucks foer these two morons because they have money to avoid all this shit...
                            Who would have thought 20 years ago that just whipping your dick out would have been the safer path?

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Silverback View Post
                              oh really!
                              My mistake, they were part-time massage therapists, not stylists.
                              Originally posted by Lone Sailor View Post
                              Sounds like they need to be suing the Jets organization, and the Jets organization alone.
                              They're accusing Favre of sexual harrassment and the Jets of job discrimination.
                              Originally posted by Broncojohnny
                              HOORAY ME and FUCK YOU!

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