{"id":114988,"date":"2025-08-03T06:59:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114988\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T06:59:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T06:59:15","slug":"nyc-exec-for-brown-harris-stevens-sued-for-allegedly-groping-employee-telling-him-i-could-have-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/114988\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC exec for Brown, Harris, Stevens sued for allegedly groping, employee, telling him &#8216;I could have you&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An exec at one of NYC\u2019s top real estate firms allegedly bragged about threesomes and groped a male underling, telling him \u201cI could have you if I wanted,\u201d according to a lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Paul Herman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bhsusa.com\/about-paul-herman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">president of Brown Harris Stevens\u2019 Residential Management Division,<\/a> invited the then new employee to a steakhouse in August 2022 and spoke \u201cabout the recent passing of his romantic partner\u201d during a shared taxi ride to the restaurant, the worker, identified only as John Doe, said in court papers.<\/p>\n<p>Doe, a vice president and managing director at the real estate brokerage tasked with overseeing one of its \u201cprime properties on Central Park West,\u201d accused  Herman, 67, of touching his leg during the boozy meal, then afterward asked him to come up to Herman\u2019s apartment.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.33460076;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36714121\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/paul-j-herman-president-brown-109038473.jpg\" alt=\"Herman in a black suit jacket light shirt and tie in a formal business photo\" class=\"wp-image-36714121\"  \/>Herman is \u201cno longer involved\u201d in Brown Harris Stevens\u2019 day to day operations, the company said in a voicemail greeeting. Brown Harris Stevens<\/p>\n<p>Once in Herman\u2019s home, the boss offered the employee champagne and marijuana before plopping himself on Doe\u2019s lap \u201cand forcibly kissed him,\u201d the employee claimed.<\/p>\n<p>The victim \u201cimmediately objected,\u201d prompting Herman to allegedly declare he could \u201chave\u201d Doe, and to describe \u201ca threesome with a restaurant manager that allegedly took place in the middle of his living room,\u201d the employee said in the Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.<\/p>\n<p>Herman allegedly insisted he could have \u201canyone [he] wants,\u201d and tried to kiss John Doe a second time before he was pushed away, said Doe, who now lives in Florida.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36714123\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/scribble-watermill-center-july-26-108990736.jpg\" alt=\"Paul herman in a black jacket and grey shirt with two necklaces and dark glasses sitting next to a woman in a colorful dress at an event\" class=\"wp-image-36714123\"  \/>Herman allegedly told the employee about a threesome he\u2019d had with a restaurant manager in his living room, the worker said in a lawsuit. Patrick McMullan via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>He then directed Doe to send an email \u201cconfirming that he had a \u2018nice dinner.\u2019 Fearing retaliation, [Doe] complied,\u201d he said in the legal papers.<\/p>\n<p>Doe said he was fired in May after complaining.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, which has offices throughout the tri-state area as well as Miami and Palm Beach, did more than $7.5 billion in sales last year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realtrends.com\/brokerage-profile\/brown-harris-stevens-new-york-ny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to RealTrends Verified. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Herman did not return a message seeking comment. A voicemail at Brown Harris Stevens noted Herman is \u201cno longer involved\u201d in the company\u2019s day-to-day operations. <\/p>\n<p>A Brown Harris Stevens rep declined comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An exec at one of NYC\u2019s top real estate firms allegedly bragged about threesomes and groped a male&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,336,5249,10476,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,4329,10204,20185,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-114988","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-lawsuits","10":"tag-manhattan","11":"tag-manhattan-supreme-court","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-real-estate","20":"tag-residential-real-estate","21":"tag-sexual-harassment","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114963543835540557","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}