Poole, who Gotthelf said fired her after more than two decades at the Post, is a defendant in a lawsuit she filed Tuesday, along with Allan, the newspaper's publishing company and corporate owner
Gotthelf said Allan's harassment of her “peaked” in fall 2015 when she was the newspaper's metro editor. The two were having drinks after an editors' dinner meeting when Allan said that “we should sleep together," she said in the lawsuit.
She said Allan became hostile when she rejected his advances. She complained to her superiors and human resources, and alleged that Allan was forced to retire shortly thereafter.
He returned as a consultant in 2019, however. Gotthelf said their relationship remained tense, and she saw her influence and status in the newsroom erode. She said that in 2019, Allan ordered her to remove from the Post's website a story about journalist
During a lunch meeting in
She said Poole fired her “without cause” on
“Any suggestion of wrongdoing related to the management changes announced today is meritless,” the Post and
The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they’re victims of sexual harassment, unless they speak publicly, as Gotthelf has done.
This story has been corrected to delete an erroneous reference to Gotthelf being fired in November. She was fired
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