Koko, the signing gorilla with a nipple fetish settles out of court, reports Court TV
Two women who claimed they were pressured to show their breasts to Koko, the famous gorilla who communicates with humans through sign language, have dropped their sexual harassment lawsuit after reaching a settlement agreement earlier this week.
via Mike Jay
Former gorilla caretakers Nancy Alperin and Kendra Keller asked for more than $1 million in damages in their sexual discrimination and wrongful termination suit filed in February against the Gorilla Foundation — the Woodside, Calif. nonprofit charged with Koko’s care — and Dr. Francine Patterson, the foundation’s president and Koko’s primary caretaker
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“Patterson would interpret certain hand movements made by Koko as a ‘demand’ to see exposed human nipples,” their suit alleged. “[Patterson] made it known to Keller and Alperin that if [they] did not indulge Koko’s nipple fetish, their employment with the Gorilla Foundation would suffer.”
Both women claimed they refused to show Koko their nipples.
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Both sides entered into settlement discussions in August, preempting the filing of an amended complaint by the women, which would have gone into greater detail about Koko’s alleged nipple fetish and sexually aggressive behavior.