Financial Management Firm for Rihanna Is Accused of Saying She’s ‘Hot’ because She’s ‘Not Too Dark’

Rihanna attends the Rihanna Party at the New York Edition Sept. 10, 2015, in New York City.
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It seems like Rihanna’s financial-management firms always got something going on.

Back in 2012, Rihanna sued her former financial-management firm for mishandling her funds. Her experience was actually the inspiration behind the “Bitch Better Have My Money” music video, in which she kidnapped her accountant’s wife in order to get the money she says she was owed.

This time, Robert Solomon, a former marketing executive at Flynn Family Office—Rihanna’s current financial-management firm—is suing FFO because he claims he was fired for not putting up with the racist and sexist chatter that he says happened pretty frequently at the New York City firm, the New York Post reports.

According to court documents filed by Solomon, FFO’s CEO, Rick Flynn, once said that Rihanna is “hot” and successful because she’s “not too dark.” Once, Flynn even described “what Caribbean nationalities were the most attractive based on skin tone” and dished out his thoughts on the “relative hotness of Asian women,” Solomon’s lawsuit says.

FFO put out a press statement denying these allegations: “We at FFO have always championed the rights of women and minorities, particularly in the workplace. The complaint filed today is without merit, and we intend to defend vigorously against these baseless claims.”

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Source: The Root | Diana Ozemebhoya Eromosele