Senator sued over alleged sex acrobatics that left staffer with injuries

The former chief of staff of a US senator claims he was forced to do sexual favours for her that left him riddled with back and hip injuries.

A California state senator forced a former staffer to do sexual favours for her while she was his boss as part of a “quid pro quo relationship” that left him riddled with back and hip injuries, a new lawsuit alleges.

Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil’s former chief of staff, Chad Condit, slapped her with the lawsuit last week, alleging the politician — a longtime Democrat who recently jumped ship to the Republican Party — pressured him into performing sex acts on her when they travelled for work, New York Post reports.

The married aide claims he relented and performed the acts on his boss over the years as part of a “sex-based quid pro quo relationship” in order to protect his job, according to the suit filed in Sacramento Superior Court.

Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil. Picture: California Legislature

On their final encounter, Mr Condit alleges, he suffered a debilitating back injury while having to “twist and contort” as he performed oral sex on the senator in a car — leaving him with three herniated discs and a collapsed hip, the court papers charge.

The staffer claims he started using his back injury as an excuse to reject Ms Alvarado-Gil’s advances in August last year but she allegedly retaliated and handed him a disciplinary letter with accusations of inappropriate behaviour levelled against him.

Mr Condit alleges he was then fired in December after repeatedly making clear that the sexual advances were no longer welcome and that he was undergoing back surgery, according to the suit.

“This was a sex-based quid pro quo relationship of unwelcome advances and sexual behaviours coupled with punishment and flexing of power,” the suit alleges.

Ms Alvarado-Gil’s lawyer claimed the former staffer had ‘fabricated an outlandish story’. Picture: Fox News

Ms Alvarado-Gil is portrayed in the suit as an “erratic” and “controlling” boss who allegedly inflicted a “sexually dominating abuse of authority and power” over the aide.

Mr Condit, who is the son of former Congressman Gary Condit, first started working for Ms Alvarado-Gil when she ran for her Senate seat as a Democrat in 2022.

He became her chief of staff when she was elected.

Ms Alvardo-Gil’s attorney, Ognian Gavrilov, has since hit back at the former aide’s allegations.

“A disgruntled former employee has fabricated an outlandish story, presented without evidence, to get a payday,” Mr Gavrilov said in a statement to The Post.

“We expect that the senator will be fully cleared of any wrongdoing of these bogus, financially motivated claims.”

Ms Alvarado-Gil celebrating with Governor Gavin Newsom at the construction site of Battery Energy Storage Systems. Picture: John G. Mabanglo-Pool/Getty Images/AFP

Ms Alvarado-Gil — who represents a largely rural district northeast of the Central Valley — made headlines last month after she defected to the Republican Party because her now-former party had become unrecognisable under its current leadership and policies.

“In the past two years that I’ve been working in the Senate, I have not recognised the party that I belong to,” the politician said at the time.

“The Democratic Party is not the party that I signed up for decades ago.”

This article originally appeared on New York Post and was reproduced with permission