David and Jackie Siegel have countersued a chef who accused Jackie of repeatedly groping him and asking him to tuck her into bed at the couple’s $100million mansion.
David’s company CFI Resorts, the parent company of Westgate Resorts, has countersued Jose Flores, a chef who worked in the couple’s personal home and restaurants, claiming he collected $30,000 in wages.
On May 5, Flores sued CFI resorts, the parent company of Westgate Resorts, claiming that Jackie s*xually harassed him on numerous occasions.
He said the former beauty queen regularly groped him and often made lewd comments like asking him to tuck her into bed.
His lawsuit accuses the company of refusing to take action when he reported harassment and that the Siegels began to criticise his work in the months after his complaint.
David Siegel is a successful timeshare magnate, worth an estimated $940million, according to Forbes, but the couple shot to notoriety when they invited filmmakers to record their efforts building a 90,000-square-foot home during a global recession.
Jackie, dubbed the Queen of Versailles, is a former winner of the Mrs. Florida beauty queen and sits on the board of directors for Westgate Resorts.
The countersuit against Flores accuses him of stealing food while on shift at the restaurant, according to the Orlando Sentinel, adding that he had a shoddy attendance record and lied about hours he worked.
He was fired in September 2019, when he was found with a box of sandwiches and four pounds of shrimp in his car.
According to the countersuit, his superiors became frustrated with his ‘irregular and undependable attendance and spotty performance’ in 2018.
‘He was absent 31 per cent of his work time during the first 3.5 months in 2019,’ the countersuit reads.
‘Flores was taking one day off for every two days actually worked while receiving pay for those off days.’
They allege the chef failed to bring up the harassment issue or that his failings were being concocted when he was confronted about his work record by superiors on 12 April.
It wasn’t until a few days later that he reported the alleged sexual harrassment.
The suit accuses Flores of payroll fraud, claiming that he clocked into work at the Siegel home, but wasn’t seen entering through the security gate or his post at the house.
They allege that Flores was convicted of credit card fraud in 1999. He also fraudulently claimed $6,865 in unemployment benefits in 2013, the suit said.
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