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BOYS NIGHT IN WITH ANDREW DICE CLAY NO GIRLS ALLOWED
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Yet, as seen in the below excerpt from Exhibit 1 to this Complaint, an advertisement for Defendants
’ “
GIRLS NIGHT IN WITH ILIZA
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NO BOYS ALLOWED
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comedy show, Defendants, had no problem
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zero, zilch, nada
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organizing, hosting, employing, booking, putting on, performing in, or at least aiding a comedy show on November 13, 2017
at Los Angeles’ The Coronet Theater,
which is also known as Largo At The Coronet
(collectively heretofore referred to as the “Theater”),
both of or either of which is owned by Defendant Mark Brian Flanagan, and which boldly promised and/or threatened that it would not allow male theatergoers into its GIRLS NIGHT IN WITH ILIZA
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NO BOYS ALLOWED show as follows:
GIRLS NIGHT IN WITH ILIZA NO BOYS ALLOWED
3.
On November 13, 2017, and at all times relevant to this Complaint, Plaintiff George St. George was and is a male. Before attempting to attend
Defendants’
GIRLS NIGHT IN WITH ILIZA
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NO BOYS ALLOWED show, Mr. St. George obtained a $30 ticket for the show through the www.largo-la.com website. 4.
Then, on November 13, 2017, well before the show was scheduled to start at 8:00 p.m., Mr. St. George, along with a male friend
who also obtained a $25 ticket for Defendants’ GIRLS NIGHT IN
WITH ILIZA
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NO BOYS ALLOWED show, appeared very early
at the Theater’s will
-call window to get their tickets by showing their proofs of purchase of their tickets through the above website to a female Theater employee. Upon showing the will-
call window’s female
employee their proofs of purchase, this Theater employee paused for some time, and then told Mr. St. George and his male
friend that the Theater would admit them to Defendants’ GIRLS NIGHT IN WITH ILIZA –
NO BOYS ALLOWED show despite the fact that they were males, but that both of the men would have to sit in the back row of the Theater for the show because of their sex.
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The two men walked away with their tickets after this Theater employee told them they would have to sit in the back of the Theater solely because of their sex. At this time, the Theater was not yet allowing ticketholders inside the Theater, for which the seating was first
come first served, from the front of the theatre to the back, so the two men went to a nearby restaurant to get a quick bite to eat. Mr. St. George and his male friend soon returned to the Theater where they were two of the first would-be patrons in line to enter the Theater, which they were not allowed to do because of what happened next, which perhaps can best be described as being akin to the Montgomery City Lines bus company in Montgomery, Alabama circa 1955 morphing into the
Woolworth’s department store lunch
counter in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960. 6.
As Mr. St. George and his male friend were in the beginning of the line with their tickets to enter and sit in the back of the Theater as ordered, the same female theater employee who was working at the will-call window earlier approached Mr. St. George and his male friend. This female employee told Mr. St. George and his male friend that since she last spoke to them and told them that they would have to sit in the back of the Theater, that
“Iliza” and
the Theater had decided to not allow Mr. St. George and his male friend to even enter the Theater because only females were being allowed to be admitted to the show
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just as promised and/or threatened. This same Theater employee told the two men that the Theater would refund them the money for their tickets. 7.
What happened to Mr. St. George and his male friend is consistent with what happened to at least one other male consumer who was a victim of Defen
dants’ War On Men by being denied entry
to Defendants
’
GIRLS NIGHT IN WITH ILIZA
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NO BOYS ALLOWED show because of his sex This can be seen in Exhibit 2 to the Complaint, in a comment by a male visitor to Defendant Iliza
Shlesinger’s Facebook page
on which Ms. Shlesinger announced her GIRLS NIGHT IN WITH ILIZA
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NO BOYS ALLOWED show. Page 2 of Exhibit 2 displays that this comment was made at 7:52 p.m. on the evening of the November 13, 2017, show by Morgan King,
who wrote “
Hey ILIZA! Can I just grab a pic with you? Huge fan but got
turned away for being a dude! I get
it! But was hoping to meet you real quick
and snap a pic as a constellation prize!
”
8.
Despite the many State of California anti-discrimination statutes, California Supreme Court opinions, California Attorney General and Department of Fair Employment and Housing actions, and