Guccione to Appeal Sex-Harassment Verdict

Spin magazine Publisher Bob Guccione Jr. said he will appeal part of the $110,000 sexual-harassment verdict lodged against him and the magazine’s ownership group by a federal jury in New York, the New York Post reported. The newspaper also quoted elderly Harlem resident Alma Green, a juror in the three-week trial in U.S. District Court, as saying she initially was the only one of the nine panel members who thought plaintiff Staci Bonner deserved a cash award. “I caught hell,” she said. “They called me all sorts of names.” After six days of deliberation, the jury on Wednesday awarded Bonner, a former editor-writer at the rock ‘n’ roll magazine, $90,000 in damages on her claim that Spin was a hostile workplace, plus $20,000 in back pay and liquidated damages under the federal Equal Pay Act. As publisher, Guccione was found personally liable for the $90,000 award, and it is that part of the verdict that he will appeal, the Post said.