Suit Claims Boom Boom Room Fired Waitresses Who Weren’t Tall, Willowy and Svelte
Two waitresses claim in a lawsuit that they were fired from the one-time Boom Boom Room at the Standard Hotel in Manhattan because they didn’t meet the club’s new requirements for “willowy, svelte and statuesque runway models.”
The plaintiffs, Faye Rex and Stephanie Jaggers, claim they were fired after the hotel remodeled its Boom Boom Room and renamed it the Top of the Standard, the New York Daily News reports. Their lawyer, Richard Roth, says the night club didn’t treat his clients the same as male employees.
After the remodeling, the night club “made a conscious decision to remove all cocktail waitresses who were not tall, extremely slender and extremely good looking,” the suit says, according to an account by the New York Post. Rex and Jaggers seek more than $1 million in damages.
The Daily News has photos of both plaintiffs. “They’re beautiful women, but they’re not tall and that, apparently, is a big crime,” Roth told the Daily News.
