A top Versace fashion executive was hit yesterday with explosive sex-harassment claims by a former assistant who says she was forced to convey intimate phone messages from her boss’s gay lovers.
One caller said he left his eyeglasses in Patrick Guadagno’s apartment, then alleged the 57-year-old fashionista drugged and date-raped him, according to Fay Rodriguez’s blockbuster Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit.
Another man told Rodriguez that Guadagno, the president of Versace Wholesale USA, gave him a sexually transmitted disease, she charges.
When Rodriguez complained about the “sexually offensive atmosphere” at Versace’s Fifth Avenue offices, Guadagno scolded her to “grow up” and “be a big girl,” court papers say.
A spokeswoman said Versace is “confident that . . . [it] will not be held responsible in any way.”