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Billionaire David Kochs wife repeatedly schemed against the Republican megadonor in the months before he died, forcing his nurses to lock him in a room during a dinner party and using code words to hide real estate and travel plans, the couples former bodyguard claims.
The stunning allegations against Julia Koch, 58, were leveled in an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission complaint filed last week by Felicia Racine, a 29-year-old former Koch bodyguard. In the complaint, which was obtained by the New York Daily News, Racine alleged the billionaires wife subjected her to gender-based discrimination and forced her to go along with several duplicitous schemes during her employment for the Koch family between January 2018 and April 2020.
The deception and lies for sure made me fearful of losing my job if I did speak up, Racine said in an interview with the Daily News on Thursday. I was always under the impression that they had so much money, if you dont just bite your tongue and go along with things, theyll get rid of you.
Racine, a U.S. Air Force veteran, recalled several times the billionaires wife allegedly duped her husband before he died last Augustincluding one 2019 dinner party where Julia Koch locked her husband in his bedroom. The complaint alleges that when Koch, 79, left his bedroom during the partyand said I love her while putting his arm around his wifeJulia Koch instructed another staffer and some nurses to take the billionaire away.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/david-koch-lying-wife-hid-170036252.html
PatSeg
(47,741 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)...OR AM I??!?
barfs all around, LOSERS
PatSeg
(47,741 posts)in movies and TV shows. After reading Mary Trump's book about her family, I'm beginning to see that the stereotypes we see on screen aren't terribly far-fetched. Too much money really does corrupt many people.
Stallion
(6,476 posts)...can't wait for the HBO movie
"The former bodyguard added that staff also kept the 58-year-olds boyfriend, Charles Manger, under wraps from the billionaire industrialist. Manger typically visited with Julia at several Koch residences, while David Sr. was still alive, including the Southampton residence, the complaint states, noting that the former bodyguard provided some security for both Julia and Manger together as a couple.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)BGBD
(3,282 posts)What is the complaint?
I worked for assholes and was worried they would fire me if I didn't do what they said? That's pretty much every job isn't it?
They were married in 1996, he was 56 and she was 32. If you are a rich guy who marries a woman 25 years younger than you, expect that when you are old and dying she's going to lock you in a room and spend her new money. It's just the trade off you get.
two people who use each other
no_hypocrisy
(46,297 posts)What I don't understand is how his wife/widow has escaped the wrath of his brother, Charles Koch.