In August, a former vp at Tinder recorded a lawsuit alleging that Greg Blatt, the onetime chief executive of Tinder and its parent companies Match cluster and IAC, intimately harassed and attacked the woman at a company Christmas celebration in 2016.
On Thursday, Blatt filed a defamation suit against their accuser, Rosette Pambakian, and against Tinder’s co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer Sean Rad, alleging that intimate battery accusations are part of a smear promotion made to bring Rad and Pambakian influence in another multibillion-dollar appropriate fight during the worth of Tinder inventory.
“Rad and Pambakian has attempted to weaponize an essential personal activity,” the defamation match alleges, “undermining the predicament of real victims of sexual abuse by making untrue accusations in cynical pursuit of a $2 billion windfall.”
Orin Snyder, legal counsel for Pambakian and Rad, also known as Blatt’s suit “a newer low for IAC/Match in addition to their previous President. They continue steadily to retaliate against and smear a victim of sexual attack additionally the individual who reported they. Her attacks are based on lies and papers which are removed from perspective. Whenever all of the proof pertains to light, it should be apparent how it happened right here. It’s shameful that these community companies become continuing to full cover up the reality.”