Byline: Colin Fernandez
A YOUNG executive broke down in tears yesterday as she compared her millionaire boss to a lovestruck teenager who treated women like 'designer handbags or dresses'.
Jordan Wimmer, 29, alleges that Mark Lowe, 59, brought escorts to business functions, made her watch two lap dances, and discussed his sexual preference for Asian women.
Miss Wimmer, who earned [pounds sterling]577,000 a year, also claimed Mr Lowe made a string of 'demeaning' jokes about stupid blondes.
She alleges that one of Mr Lowe's girlfriends wore tight Dior hotpants and stilettos to a serious business event.
Mr Lowe, who runs the hedge fund Nomos Capital, has a reputed [pounds sterling]100million fortune, a 40-room castle in France and homes in London and Thailand, freely admits he is 'not monogamous'.
Silver Dangle EarringsHe accepts he currently has three lovers around the world as well as an estranged wife in London.
But as 'a wealthy and powerful' man he claims the women are attracted to him because 'it's the way of the world'.
Miss Wimmer, who said she was 'speaking slowly' because she was on drugs for depression and anxiety, was yesterday questioned at the Central London Employment Tribunal about her claims that her boss brought prostitutes to business meetings.
Elizabeth Melville, representing Mr Lowe, said to Miss Wimmer that any women he brought along were 'his girlfriends'. She said that one of the women Miss Wimmer was referring to, Natalia Malygina, was also highly qualified, and had worked for two investment banks, and is now studying at Lausanne University for an MBA.
Miss Malygina has posed on her Facebook page in a low-cut black dress.
Miss Wimmer maintained that the Russ-ian woman had been an escort, but said: 'You can turn your life around, I guess.' The 29-year-old also complained that Mr Lowe would talk explicitly about his Thai lover, Ling.
She said: 'I couldn't believe he was acting like a teenager in love, telling me wholly inappropriate things... Like how he loved Ling, and whether Ling loved him. I do think it's Dimmable LED Down Light K1004H - 1x10W inappropriate when your boss is talking about teenage love and lust stories about his girlfriend.' Miss Melville said that Ling was actually Malaysian and a longterm girlfriend, as Mr Lowe had been seeing her since April 2003, a year before Miss Wimmer joined the company. Miss Melville asked why Miss Wimmer objected to Ling, who was qualified in finance and worked for a bank, attending a business meeting at the Hong Kong Yacht Club.
Miss Wimmer said: 'It's just completely inappropriate and so demeaning for me to have to stand there in a pinstripe suit next to someone in Dior hotpants that don't cover her buttocks, standing there in stilettos with her breasts pushed out.' Miss Melville responded: 'You went to functions in a short skirt, or low-cut top, very tasteful, but nevertheless showing quite a lot of flesh.' Miss Wimmer said: 'I don't agree, I don't agree at all.' She added: 'It's really sad to say, but he has this portraiture of women as objects he can just buy like handbags or designer dresses which are meant to be just thrown around and bought on occasion.' The strain of working in a 'pressure cooker' environment eventually led to Miss Wimmer being treated for depression and anxiety for six weeks at The Causeway, a [pounds sterling]10,000 a-week clinic, before she finally quit her job
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