CEO of metaverse company Everyrealm is sued by ex-NFL player - Daily Mail

A erstwhile NFL subordinate is suing the CEO of a metaverse company, claiming she pressured him into playing 'sexually harassing games' and discriminated against him due to the fact that helium is black.

Teyo Johnson, a erstwhile choky extremity for the Oakland Raiders, filed a suit against Everyrealm CEO Janine Yorio successful August claiming that she presided implicit a toxic enactment environment.

He alleges successful caller tribunal documents obtained by the New York Post that Yorio pressured him into 'sexually harassing games' successful which coworkers and clients were encouraged to slumber with each other.

Lawyers for the metaverse institution — which develops and sells virtual existent property — person vehemently denied these allegations to the Post, alternatively claiming that Johnson made the inappropriate comments astatine its New York offices.

But Johnson's suit is conscionable 1 of 3 filed against the virtual world company, accusing Yorio of sexually harassing achromatic employees and subjecting them to radical remarks — adjacent erstwhile threatening to 'trade' Johnson if helium did not execute his job.

Together, they are seeking $1.9million successful damages from the Andreessen Horowitz-backed institution that 'invests successful and develops virtual worlds.'

In his suit filed successful Manhattan national court, Johnson claims Yorio encouraged him to play a 'sex-related game' during a concern travel to the SxSW festival successful August.

According to the suit, obtained by the New York Post, Yorio utilized the euphemisms 'KYP,' meaning 'know your personnel,' and 'KYC,' meaning 'know your client,' to signify 'having enactment oregon hooking up with your coworkers and concern partners.'

It claims that Yorio told Johnson 'the mode to play the game' was to 'get laid by a coworker connected a concern trip.'

She allegedly asked him if helium 'would beryllium doing immoderate KYP' connected the trip, which the suit says, took Johnson aback.

He past 'politely informed her that helium was "already truly adjacent with someone," according to the suit.

But aboriginal that evening, Johnson alleged that Yorio went to his edifice country successful Austin and 'insinuated successful nary uncertain presumption that she believed helium would' cheat connected his woman to 'participate successful the company's KYP game.' 

The suit besides alleges that Yorio made violative jokes astir Johnson's girlfriend's menstrual rhythm and referred to him arsenic a 'stupid achromatic person' and 'the whitest achromatic person' upon his hiring.

She is further alleged to person called him a 'd***,' a 'big swinging d***' and a 'f****** d***.' 

And, the suit claims that William Kerr, the company's wide counsel, erstwhile referred to Paris Hilton — an Everyrealm capitalist who has been pictured with Yorio astatine anterior events — arsenic a 'night successful Paris,' the rubric of revenge porn video leaked to the Internet successful 2004.

Johnson, whose occupation required managing personage accounts similar Hilton's, was said to beryllium horrified that successful bid to transportation retired his occupation duties, helium was made to perceive to the derogatory comments and nicknames.

DailyMail.com has reached retired to lawyers for the Metaverse institution for comment. 

Johnson besides claims successful the tribunal documents that helium was fired successful retaliation for blowing the whistle connected a perchance amerciable cryptocurrency 'gambling scheme' involving NFT playing cards of nonrecreational shot players.

According to the suit filed successful August, the strategy 'involved a cryptocurrency mentation of phantasy sports successful which users would bargain battalion s of NFTs representing nonrecreational shot subordinate cards.'

It explains: 'Users would participate cryptocurrencies into a excavation and past triumph prize wealth if their NFT playing cards performed amended than the different players' NFTs.

But, the suit says, Everyrealm did not person a gambling licence successful New York — wherever it is based, and 'reasonably believed ' that the crippled would 'violate galore New York and national laws' arsenic 'randomizing the packs of cards... would suffice arsenic a crippled of accidental and frankincense beryllium illegal.'

After helium brought his concerns to his supervisors and the NFT task was scrapped, it claims, Yorio 'soured on' Johnson, and helium coiled up successful her 'doghouse.'  

In the aftermath, the suit says, his connection to forge a narration betwixt Everyrealm and NFL.com was sabotaged by Yorio and different executives.

Johnson said helium had met with executives astatine NFL.com to signifier a concern and created a task program with requests to person 3D graphics designed for the proposal.

Julia Schwartz, a subordinate of the committee of directors, asked to beryllium 'kept successful the loo[' successful the aftermath, and said she wanted to constitute the connection herself, according to the suit.

'However, it became wide wrong a mates of days that not lone had Ms. Schwartz not started penning the proposal, but she was secretly preventing anyone successful her section from providing Mr. Johnson with the 3D graphics helium had requested,' the suit states.

Under unit to get the connection completed, it says, Johnson decided to constitute the connection himself and included a skybox gathering spot Yorio had projected successful which fans of each NFL squad could conscionable virtually with the players.

But erstwhile helium handed it to Yorio, the suit claims, she refused to nonstop the connection backmost to NFL.com, telling Johnson: 'We don't request to beryllium elaborate successful what we tin physique out, we request to beryllium vague.'

A spokesperson for the institution has present vehemently denied the allegations to the Post, calling them 'lies.'

'As we person stated successful our tribunal filings, this worker worked astatine the institution for lone 3 months and was terminated for mediocre performance, disbursal relationship maltreatment and falling dormant connected the job.'

The institution besides alleges successful tribunal documents that Johnson 'openly and routinely disparaged the parent of his kid and demanded that Everyrealm wage a information of his wages successful currency to debar garnishment for his kid enactment payments.'

Company executives refused his demand, they claim.

'Johnson made assorted inappropriate comments successful the workplace regarding different women successful his life, hazed a inferior femal;e worker by disparaging her arsenic a "rookie" and refusing to conscionable with her,' institution executives claim.

They besides said Johnson referred to Schwartz, a cofounder astatine the institution arsenic 'that b****' and Yorio arsenic 'that brainsick b****.' 

But Johnson is not the lone erstwhile worker to marque these types of allegations against Everyrealm and its executives.