San Diego Wave President Jill Ellis sued former group worker Brittany Alvarado for defamation following allegations of a poor work setting.
Alvarado, a former video and artistic supervisor, posted on X and Instagram on July 3 that “the therapy we endured underneath membership President Jill Ellis has been nothing in need of life-altering and devastating to our psychological well being.”
Alvarado accused Ellis of a “narcissistic private agenda, fostering an setting the place abusive behaviors amongst her subordinates are allowed to flourish.” She known as on the Nationwide Ladies’s Soccer League to take away Ellis from the group and the league.
Ellis issued a press release the following day calling the allegations “false” and “personally damaging.”
In a lawsuit filed Monday in California Superior Court docket in San Diego, Ellis claimed defamation and intentional interference with contractual relations.
“As a direct and proximate results of the publication of the false and defamatory statements, plaintiff has suffered normal and particular financial and emotional damage, harm, loss and hurt, harm to status, anxiousness, embarrassment, humiliation, disgrace and extreme emotional misery,” the swimsuit mentioned.
A message searching for remark was left with Alvarado’s lawyer, Casey Hultin.
Ellis requested for an injunction in opposition to Alvarado stopping her from publishing defamatory statements in opposition to her.
The swimsuit says Alvarado was employed on March 20, 2023. It says she filed a criticism with the league on Feb. 5 this yr and the NWSL completed its investigation on April 26, discovering no violations of regulation or league coverage. The swimsuit says Alvarado resigned on June 7.
Ellis, 57, coached the U.S. girls’s nationwide group from 2014-19. She led the group to World Cup titles in 2015 and ’19, incomes Finest FIFA Ladies’s Coach for each years.
Reporting by The Related Press.
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