Brett Favre is getting sued for sending pervy text messages — and not by Jenn Sterger.
Two former massage therapists for the Jets filed suit against the grid great and Gang Green today, charging they were fired after one spurned the quarterback’s crude digital advances.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Christina Scavo and Shannon O’Toole say Favre made his move in the summer of 2008, after the pair had been working at the Jets training camp on Long Island.
“Brett here,” the text to a third unidentified masseuse began. “[Y]ou and crissy want to get together im all alone [sic].”
He then sent a follow up text, saying, “Kinda lonely tonight I guess I have bad intentions.”
Scavo told her husband about the texts, and he called the Packers legend and “requested that he stop soliciting his wife for ‘bad intentions’ or to get together with her. Mr. Scavo further requested that Favre apologize for his inappropriate behavior of sexually harassing Christina Scavo and other massage therapists,” the suit says.
Favre “responded in an inappropriate manner and refused to apologize,” the filing says.
“He essentially told him to go away and as a celebrity he couldn’t be bothered with the little people,” said the therapists’ lawyer, David Jarosclawicz.
He said it was his clients who got sacked after the hubby’s phone call. Scavo and O’Toole, who’d gotten Scavo her job, “were never again called to provide massage therapy for the Jets,” the suit says.
Jaroslawicz said his clients decided to come forward after former Jets’ sideline reporter Sterger’s story about being harassed with crude e-mails from Favre went public.
“Then they knew it was a pattern,” Jaroslawicz said.
Both women cooperated with the NFL’s investigation into Favre’s conduct, and both were disgusted with the $50,000 penalty the league handed down against him.
“It’s a joke. It’s like letting a drunk driver plead guilty to a broken tail light,” Jaroslawicz said.
The suit also names the Jets as defendants, as well as the Jets’ employee who coordinated the massage program, Lisa Ripi. The suit quotes from texts Ripi sent Scavo, where she told the therapist her “husband is a complete a–hole” and “you should have come to me.”
“For sure feel horrible that u had to go thru that w a pervert . . . He was wrong on all counts . . . and we cldve helped u a lot more at the time,” the suit quotes Ripi as texting.
The suit seeks unspecified money damages, and for Scavo and O’Toole to get their jobs back.