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Lawsuit Against Olympic Gold Medalist & Snowboard/Skateboard

Star
Shaun White Filed By Female Drummer Of His Rock Band, Bad
Things:
Suit Includes Graphic Allegations Of Sexual Harassment,
Bad Business Practices And Failure To Pay Wages

San Diego, CA, August 16, 2016 Two-Time Olympic Gold Medalist and X Games
Champion Shaun White is being accused of sexually harassing Lena Zawaideh, the
former female drummer with his rock band, Bad Things. These accusations include
White sending sexually explicit and graphic images to Zawaideh of engorged and erect
penises, forcing her to watch sexually disturbing videos, including videos sexualizing
human fecal matter, and making vulgar sexual remarks to her such as, Dont forget to
suck his balls! when commenting on her boyfriend. At one point, White even stuck his
hands down his pants, approached Zawaideh, and stuck his hands in her face trying to
make her smell them. In addition to sexually harassing Zawaideh, White also refused to
pay her contractual wages throughout 2014, and used his role to impose a strict regime
over Zawaideh, including terminating Zawaideh because she refused cut her hair, wear
sexually revealing clothes and underwear, and refrain from wearing red lipstickher
own personal signature.
These allegations were made in a Verified First Amended Complaint, recently filed on
behalf of Zawaideh by her current attorneys, Lawrance A. Bohm and the Bohm Law
Group, Inc. (NOTE: In 2014, The Bohm Law Group, Inc. obtained a $185 million verdict
in San Diego Federal Court on behalf of a pregnant worker.)
The case, Zawaideh v. Shaun White Enterprises, et al., is currently pending in the
Superior Court of California in San Diego County.
The First Amended Complaint, filed on August 12, 2016, alleges 15 causes of action,
including sexual harassment; wrongful termination; nonpayment of wages; and breach
of contract.
No trial date has yet been set in the case.
It is shocking and appalling to see a national role model act with such disregard to
women in the workplace. Considering Mr. White became famous for his long hair and
snowboarder persona, who ever thought we would see the day that Shaun White
terminates someone who refuses to cut her hair. This type of gender harassment and
discrimination does not belong in the workplace, said Ms. Zawaidehs lead trial attorney

Lawrance Bohm of the Bohm Law Group, Inc., who recently took over Ms. Zawaidehs
representation. Athletes, rock stars, and pop culture icons are not above the law.
Shaun White has to play by the same rules as every other employer in the State of
California. Lena had a right to be free of harassment and equal pay at work. We are
going to hold Shaun White accountable for his malicious and reprehensible conduct.
Adds Lena Zawaideh, "I am pursuing this case because women should not have to
tolerate harassment at work. Shaun White should not be allowed to whatever he wants
just because he is famous. Although I am embarrassed to have been treated this way, I
cannot sit by and watch him do this to other women."
ABOUT THE CASE:
Ms. Zawaideh is being represented in her case against Shaun White by Lawrance A.
Bohm, Kelsey K. Ciarimboli, and Rachel E. Sauer of the California-wide Bohm Law
Group, a renowned law firm with offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento and San Diego which has achieved numerous successes protecting and defending civil and workplace
rights.
The First Amended Complaint alleges as follows:
** The world knows Shaun White as an Olympian, X Games legend, winner of 10
ESPY Awards, and the face of modern extreme sports. In addition to his
achievements in the sporting world, White is also the founder, lead guitarist and
public face of the young rock band Bad Things. However, the public face of Shaun
White hides a darker, misogynistic personality.
** Lena Zawaideh, the only female member in Bad Things, learned the darker side of
Shaun White when he repeatedly sexually harassed her and forced his authoritarian
management style on her for over seven years. White sent sexually explicit and
graphic images to Zawaideh of engorged and erect penises, forced her to watch
sexually disturbing videos, including videos sexualizing human fecal matter, and
made vulgar sexual remarks to her such as, Dont forget to suck his balls! when
commenting on her boyfriend. At one point, White stuck his hands down his pants,
approached Zawaideh, and stuck his hands in her face trying to make her smell
them. As the financier of Bad Things, White used his role to impose a strict regime
over Zawaideh, going so far as to demand that she cut her hair, wear sexually
revealing clothes and underwear, and refrain from wearing red lipstickher own
personal signature.
** In January 2014, Shaun White ceased paying the members of Bad Things in an
effort to cut costs. However, White shortly reinstated the payments to everyone
except Zawaidehwhen the band could not rehearse to Whites satisfaction because
of their day jobs. White told the other members of the band that he was refusing to
pay Zawaideh because he believed she did not need the money. At the time,
Zawaideh was the only female member of the band.

** The night before Bad Things last show of their 2014 tour, Shaun White texted
Zawaideh and demanded that she cut her hair in a new style at shoulder or above
but keep your bangs. Zawaideh refused to cut her hair because her image was
extremely important to her. White was furious that his demand was not followed and
refused to talk to Zawaideh the entire next day. He even demeaned her in interviews
later that night.
** At the end of Bad Things 2014 tour, Zawaideh went home with the assumption that
she was still a member of the band. After not hearing from White for some time,
Zawaideh was informed by another Bad Things member that the band continued to
rehearse and perform without her. Zawaideh then received a phone call from the bands
new manager who told her that after some consideration, White decided to part ways
with her. Zawaideh was never told why she was no longer a member of the band. She
also never received any of her contractual payments for 2014.
ABOUT LENA ZAWAIDEH:
Lena Zawaideh grew up in Carlsbad, California. She began playing music at the age of
nine, and drums at the age of eleven. Zawaideh received her first drum set from her
mother as a bribe for performing in a final ballet recital when she was eleven.
With childhood ambitions of attending Harvard Medical School, Zawaideh only
discovered her ambition for being a musician in her late teens. Zawaideh draws her
musical influences from Black Sabbath and the Beatles, but also likes to have her own
flair and flavor in her music.
Zawaideh was one of the founding members of Bad Things in 2008, after she and
Shaun White met during the 2007 San Diego Wildfires. She served as the drummer for
Bad Things until 2014.
In a piece on Bad Things, Glide Magazine hailed Zawaideh as the musician that really
makes this band cool...with her red lipstick and a swinging beat, [Zawaideh helped]
keep Bad Things from being just one in a million young bands trying to find their niche in
the music world.
ABOUT SHAUN WHITE:
Shaun White was born in San Diego, California. White spent his formative years riding
Okemo Mountain and Bear Mountain, small ski resorts found in Ludlow, Vermont, and
the San Bernardino Mountains of Southern California.
White won numerous titles on his skateboard, including the overall title of Action Sports
Tour Champion, and was the first person to compete in and win both the Summer and
Winter X Games in two different sports.
White participated in three Winter Olympics in his career. At both the 2006 and 2010
Winter Olympics, White won gold in the snowboard halfpipe event. White also
participated in the Winter X Games, where he won a medal every year since 2002.

Whites medal count for the winter X Games competitions stands at 18 (13 gold, 3 silver,
2 bronze). White is the first male athlete in one discipline, the snowboard slopestyle, to
have a quadruple win streak.
White is also the lead guitarist and founder of the the electronic rock band Bad Things,
which also features former Augustana bassist Jared Palomar. The band played in one of
the four Saturday headlining slots at the 2013 Lollapalooza festival, as a last minute
replacement for Death Grips. Their self-titled debut album was released in January
2014.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaun_White
ABOUT LAWRANCE BOHM & THE BOHM LAW GROUP:
As the founder of the California-wide Bohm Law Group, Inc., Lawrance A. Bohm is a
well-known trial lawyer who is most noted for winning what are believed to be the two
largest single-plaintiff employment verdicts in U.S. history. Bohm achieved national fame
after his first record-breaking verdict, for $167,730,488.00 in Chopourian v. Catholic
Healthcare West.
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chopourian_v._Catholic_
Healthcare_West).
In addition, Bohm has also won several other large verdicts protecting and defending
civil and workplace rights. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrance_Bohm).
In 2016, the Daily Journal recognized Bohm as one of the top labor and employment
lawyers in California. In 2015, The National Law Journal recognized Bohm as one of the
top 50 elite trial lawyers in the country. In 2014, Bohm was named a Super Lawyer
and became a recipient of the prestigious Litigator Award, given to the top 1% of
lawyers. In 2013, Bohm was spotlighted in the Sacramento Business Journal's 2013
Best of the Bar special edition.
Bohm was ranked #1 on eBossWatch 2012 list of the Nation's Top Employment
Lawyers. Also, in 2012, he was selected as one of the Daily Journal's Top 100 Lawyers
in California. Further, in 2012, Bohm was selected by the Capital City Trial Lawyers
Association as Advocate of the Year. In 2010, Bohm was selected as one of the Daily
Journal's Top Labor and Employment Lawyers in California. He is also a lifetime
member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates
Forum. Please see: http://www.Bohmlaw.com/
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Media Contact for
The Bohm Law Group:
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The Asbury PR Agency

Beverly Hills, CA
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Shaun White is represented by:
Patricia L. Glaser & Kerry Garvis Wright
Glaser, Weil, Fink, Howard, Avchen & Shapiro LLP
Kerry Garvis Wright | Partner
10250 Constellation Blvd., 19th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90067
Main: 310.553.3000 | Direct: 310.556.7889 | Fax: 310.843.2689
E-Mail: kgarviswright@glaserweil.com | www.glaserweil.com