Arizona-based Buffalo Exchange and former Colorado franchise co-owner Patrick Todd Colletti are among those being sued by four former employees nearly ten months after dozens of accusations of sexual assault and harassment, verbal abuse, physical assault and workplace cocaine use surfaced on the Instagram account Buffalo in the Room in late July 2020.
The eleven claims in the lawsuit, filed in Denver on May 11 by Lowrey Parady Lebsack, LLC, include allegtions of sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact, assault and battery, along with class-action violations of Colorado s anti-discrimination laws.
Shortly after the accusations against Colletti surfaced last summer, Buffalo Exchange s Arizona offices severed ties with the Colorado franchise stores in Boulder and Denver and stripped them of the right to use the brand name.
4 employees sue former operator of Colorado vintage clothing stores for sex abuse, harassment
Dozens of accusations last year against Patrick Todd Colletti led to the shutdown of three Buffalo Exchange locations in Denver and Boulder. Author: Jennifer Campbell-Hicks Updated: 8:41 AM MDT May 12, 2021
DENVER A lawsuit was filed Tuesday on behalf of three women and one man who claim that a former franchise managing partner of Buffalo Exchange, a vintage clothing store whose Colorado locations shut down last summer, sexually assaulted and harassed his employees.
The complaint and demand for a jury trial, filed by Denver law firm Lowrey Parady Lebsack in Denver District Court, claims that Buffalo Exchange knew about and ignored accusations against Patrick Todd Colletti, who had operated three stores in Denver and Boulder.
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