Republican Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil sued by former chief of staff after forced sex act left him with back injury

A Republican Senator’s former chief of staff has sued her for alleged sexual harassment and using him as a “sex slave”. The complainant even claimed that he suffered serious injuries to his back and hip when he was forced to perform a sexual act inside a vehicle.

The lawsuit filed by Chad Condit against Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil in Sacramento Superior Court last week came a month after the latter, a long-time Democrat, joined the Republican Party.

Condit, the son of a former California Congressman, started working for Alvarado-Gil when she ran for Senate in 2022 as a Democrat. He became her chief of staff after she was elected to office.

According to the lawsuit, the 50-year-old Senator started “grooming” him soon after he was employed by her and started sharing intimate details of her personal life. She even asked him if he would ever cheat on his wife, reports Politico.

By January 2023, she forced him to run personal errands, including taking care of her dogs while at work. And in order to protect his job, Condit gave in to her demands to perform sexual acts on her as part of a “sex-based quid pro quo relationship of unwelcome advances and sexual behaviour coupled with punishment and flexing of power”, the lawsuit claimed.

During their last encounter, Alvarado-Gil forced Condit to perform an act inside a car. Due to the confined space, he suffered three herniated discs and a collapsed hip.

By August last year, he started pushing back towards her advances, especially when he was injured. The Senator, however, gave Condit a “disciplinary letter with accusations of inappropriate behaviour levelled against him”, The New York Post quoted the lawsuit as saying.

Finally, in December 2023, Alvarado-Gil fired Condit after he repeatedly rejected her demands.

A lawyer representing Senator has dismissed Condit’s allegations, saying they were fabricated and presented without evidence by a “disgruntled former employee”.

“We expect that the senator will be fully cleared of any wrongdoing of these bogus, financially motivated claims,” the lawyer told The New York Post.