A young ballerina has filed a lawsuit against New York City Ballet and its former principal dancer, accusing the venerated institution of creating a 'fraternity-like' atmosphere and allowing male performers to abuse, assault and dehumanize female dancers with impunity.
Alexandra Waterbury, a 19-year-old dancer, model and Ivy League college student, filed her bombshell 40-page complaint in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday containing explosive allegations against the New York City Ballet and her former boyfriend, 28-year-old Chase Finlay.
The complaint obtained by DailyMail.com alleges Finlay had secretly photographed and videotaped his sexual encounters with Waterbury and shared the images and videos and other dancers, employees, NYC Ballet donors and even a sex trafficker, without her consent.
Ballet dancer and model Alexandra Waterbury (pictured left in rehearsal) has filed a lawsuit against her former boyfriend and New York City Ballet principal Chase Finlay, 28 (pictured together right in May), accusing him of sexual misconduct
Waterbury's bombshell lawsuit also names New York City Ballet as a defendant, accusing the high-brow institution of being a ‘a breeding ground for sexual exploitation’ and fostering a 'frat-house' culture
The lawsuit quoted an unnamed top donor texting Finlay: 'we should get like half a kilo [of cocaine] and put it over the girls and just violate them.'
The donor went on to say, 'I bet we could tie some of them up and abuse them like farm animals,' to which Finlay replied in a text, 'or like the sluts they are,' according to his ex-girlfriend’s complaint.
Waterbury's lawsuit comes less than a week after New York City Ballet announced that Finlay had abruptly resigned, and that two other male principals, Amar Ramasar and Zachary Catazaro, were suspended over allegations of inappropriate communications via text and email.
The lawsuit points at the celebrated ballet company’s workplace culture, describing it as ‘a breeding ground for sexual exploitation’ where women are objectified and treated as ’second-class citizens.’
She further accuses the company of fostering a highly sexualized environment and sweeping the male principals' unlawful, reckless or degrading behavior towards women 'under the rug'.
Waterbury claims that Finlay, her boyfriend of one year, had secretly photographed and videotaped his sexual encounters, and then shared the content with his colleagues
Finlay and a ballet donor at one point traded texts joking that ballerinas should be dusted with cocaine 'and abused like farm animals.' He also allegedly shared one of the 19-year-old Waterbury's photos with a pimp
‘The male dancers…understood that they were ‘above the law’ and could do whatever they wanted to women, whenever they wanted to do so — just make sure it occurs in New York, where it could be controlled by [NYC Ballet’s] executives and management,’ the lawsuit alleged.
Without naming the person in question, the court filing claims that one male dancer was sent to rehab after a run-in with the law concerning substance abuse and domestic violence involving a ballerina, but he was allowed to return to the dance corps a week later 'without repercussion.'
'This sent the message to Mr Finlay and other New York City Ballet male dancers and others that it was acceptable to...abuse substances and degrade, demean, dehumanize and physically abuse women, including its own employees,' the complaint reads.
According to the complaint, at least one high-ranking official within the organization was aware of Finlay's substance abuse and would ask him about his partying because he would show up to work smelling of alcohol, but the institution 'buried its head in the sand' and chose not to address the principal’s conduct.
Waterbury, pictured dancing in 2013, learned in May 2018 that her boyfriend had been recording her disseminating naked images and videos of the tow of them having sex without her consent
The lawsuit says Waterbury sustained severe psychological and emotional damage, mental anguish, embarrassment and humiliation
'Clearly, New York City Ballet had extensive knowledge of this out-of-control, fraternity-house, abusive and sexually charged environment, but it did nothing to stop it, so long as it continued to sell tickets,’ Waterbury’s attorney wrote in the filing.
The document goes into graphic detail about Chase Finlay’s text message exchanges with other male principals, in which they allegedly agreed to swap sexually explicit photos and videos of their girlfriends and other ballerinas.
'You have any pictures of girls you've f***ed?' Finlay allegedly said in a text sent to another person with the Ballet, along with a naked photo of Waterbury. 'I'll send you some got ballerina girls I've made scream and squirt.'
Waterbury shared this snap taken on her first day of class at Columbia University on her Instagram page Tuesday
The male dancers allegedly began exchanging images and photos on a text message chain in September 2017 and continued through May 2018.
On one occasion, a Ballet employee allegedly texted Finlay in reference to his girlfriend: 'I want to j*** off to watching u and Alex f*** lol' and 'I can’t stop looking at Alex's t**s lol.'
Finlay also allegedly discussed recording the 19-year-old Waterbury performing a sex act for profit, because 'that s*** would sell.'
It was not until May 15, 2018, that Waterbury, then a student at School of American Ballet at Lincoln Center, discovered that Finlay, whom she had been dating for a year, had been allegedly surreptitiously videotaping her and disseminating her naked photos to agents, donors, ballet employees and fellow performers.
The lawsuit claims that Waterbury sustained severe psychological and emotional damage, mental anguish, embarrassment and humiliation as a result of Finlay’s actions and those of the ballet company.
She is suing her ex-boyfriend and his former employer for negligence, intentional affliction of emotional distress, assault, battery and invasion of privacy.
Waterbury’s lawsuit is seeking unspecified punitive damages, compensatory damages and attorney's fees.
The plaintiff is currently an undergraduate student at the School of General Studies at Columbia University and a dancer at the Columbia Ballet Collaborative. Waterbury also has been modelling with the agency Wilhelmina International from the time she was a teenager.
DailyMail.com on Wednesday reached out to New York City Ballet for comment on the lawsuit.
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