A former high-level editor at The New York Post claimed in a discrimination lawsuit filed on Tuesday that she had endured “several years of sex-based harassment” during her more than two decades at the tabloid, saying its longtime editor in chief retaliated against her after she reported to company officers that he had sexually harassed her.
The former editor, Michelle Gotthelf, who joined The Post as a reporter in 2000 and was the editor in chief of its website until she was dismissed last week, said in the suit that she had been fired without cause. Ms. Gotthelf’s suit names News Corporation, the Rupert Murdoch-owned company that operates The Post, and New York Post Holdings. It also names Keith Poole, the current editor in chief of the New York Post Group, and Col Allan, the former longtime top editor of The Post who spent more than 40 years leading Murdoch publications in Australia and the United States.
In the legal complaint, Ms. Gotthelf said Mr. Allan began to harass her in 2013, claiming that he “delighted in degrading Ms. Gotthelf, and women generally, in front of her mostly male peers.” She complained to The Post’s publisher and chief executive at the time, Jesse Angelo, who told her that there was not much he could do, according to the suit.
She also accused Mr. Allan of propositioning her for sex in 2015 by saying, “We should sleep together.” She rejected his advance and made a complaint to two New York Post editors the next day, according to the suit, and...
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