An award-winning radio reporter is causing static for the media empire owned by Harlem big shot Percy Sutton.
Wayne Gillman, former news director at black-oriented WLIB and WBLS radio stations, claims he was canned by Inner City Broadcasting Corp. after rejecting repeated come-ons from Sutton’s divorced daughter, Cheryl Sutton.
Gillman, 57, says her unrequited passion for him was no secret within the company, contending in court papers that staffers there “are aware of and will testify to this.”
His Manhattan federal suit seeks unspecified damages, plus reinstatement to his $85,000-a-year job — which he says was supplemented by another $30,000 he made as news anchor for Inner City’s ill-fated, liberal talk-show network, Air America.
Neither Cheryl, 56, nor her brother, Inner City CEO Pierre Sutton, returned messages, and a spokesman for the company’s law firm said it does “not comment on pending litigation.”