The owner of a popular cafe on Shelter Island, New York, was accused in a lawsuit of abusing employees who worked for her under a US summer visa program for foreign students.
Marie Eiffel sexually abused and exploited employees who worked in her Marie Eiffel Market, according to the lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court last week. Eight former employees who worked there in 2021 and 2022 alleged that she frequently groped them and spanked them in private, in front of other employees and in front of customers at the popular shop.
The six women and two men who are suing were all placed with Eiffel by a nonprofit called InterExchange, to which they claim acted as their J-1 sponsor. The plaintiffs — citizens of Malaysia, Thailand, Ecuador and Colombia — are also suing InterExchange, to which they claim they paid fees, in some cases thousands of dollars, on the promise that they would have a “once-in-a-lifetime experience” in the US. Instead, they claim they were subjected to a “nightmare.
“Marie acted as though she believed that such egregious behavior was funny,” attorneys for the students wrote in the lawsuit.
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