A former eXp broker filed a lawsuit against the brokerage late last week, saying she was retaliated against after she filed a report about sexual harassment and other “illegal activity.”
Noelle Nielsen — a broker from Minnesota who is now with the Real Brokerage — alleged she acted as a whistleblower regarding events that took place as early as 2020, but that her reports weren’t thoroughly investigated by eXp. She also said she was “blacklisted” from speaking at eXp events.
In her lawsuit, filed on Aug. 7 in a District Court in Minnesota, Nielsen specifically alleged that she had been drugged during a business trip to Puerto Rico in 2019.
Nielsen goes on to say that she was recruited to join eXp by Mike Bjorkman and David Golden. The two men are former eXp agents who were named in multiple lawsuits and accused of drugging and sexually assaulting women at industry events. The suits accuse eXp and founder Glenn Sanford of looking the other way and ignoring the problem.
(Bjorkman filed his own lawsuit that pushed back against the characterizations in the suits against him and names eXp Realty and Sanford as defendants.
In Nielsen’s case, she alleged that she was “effectively the whistleblower” who shed light on the alleged misconduct at the heart of the lawsuits against Bjorkman and Golden after having been sexually harassed by the pair.
“In early 2020, Nielsen learned from another agent at the company that Bjorkman and Golden were trying to obtain illegal drugs while they...
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