A former flight attendant on Oprah Winfrey's private jet says Gayle King's daughter lied about a fling between the flight attendant and the pilot that got her fired, according to a lawsuit filed today in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
The plaintiff Corrine Gehrls alleges that Gayle King's daughter, Kirby Bumpus, and the other flight attendant on the jet, Myron Gooch, told Oprah Winfrey directly that Gerhls and the pilot, Terry Pansing, engaged in "inapproriate intimate conduct" during a June 14, 2009 flight.
Gehrls states in the complaint that no such conduct took place and, furthermore, there is no way anyone could have witnessed such conduct since Winfrey and the other passengers ingested sleeping pills and slept throughout the flight.
Gerhls also claims in the lawsuit that Winfrey favored Gooch and turned a blind eye when Gooch and Gayle King shared the jet's double bed on another flight.
The complaint points out that Winfrey's only gripe with Gooch was his food ordering skills and that Winfrey allegedly said "[W]hite folks don't know what southern food should taste like."
According to the complaint, Gerhls and Pansing passed a lie detector test and the results are attached to the complaint as exhibits.
Read the complaint after the jump.
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2 Comments
Joe the Cop said:
It's not every day that you find a story, at least not in a northern news outlet, that features the last names "Bumpus" and "Gooch".
Yves said:
Joe the Cop- You are Hilariously right about "Bumpus" and "Gooch". Imaging King being accused of getting Gooched.
Gehrls problem may be that she is a Girl.
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