While on a business trip in Helsinki, 30-year-old female former investment banker living in New York says she was the victim of a sexual assault inside her locked luxury hotel room, a new lawsuit filed in New York charges.
The incident allegedly occurred on Jan. 15, 2011, at the Hotel Kamp, which is part of Starwood's high-end Luxury Collection group of hotels.
The evening of the 15th the man allegedly man sexual advances at the woman. She had to tell him many times that she was not interested. At around 4 am the woman found the same mane in her bed.
Although I was still sleepy, I bolted out of bed when he attacked me and I feel fortunate to have been able to get out of the room and escape from him," Alison Fournier says in her statement.
Gloria Allred, the lawyer who recently represented a woman who allegedly had an affair with Herman Cain is representing Alison in this case.
The lawsuit claims the man got into the locked by telling the front desk that he was her husband and got locked out of the room – this was a lie. He was given a key despite not giving an ID or other personal information.
No arrest was ever made, Allred says, because hotel staff "made no effort after the assault to immediately call the police or report these events to law enforcement."
Fournier left Finland within hours of the assault, as did the perpetrator. In order for an arrest to be made, Fournier was later told; both she and the man would need to return to Finland.
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