The wife of wealthy Manhattan banker is being sued by her African-American nanny after sending her a racist text and then firing her through sheer embarrassment.
Mother-of-two, Lynsey Plasco-Flaxman, allegedly sent a message to her spouse, Joel Plasco, upon realizing the woman was black.
‘NOOOOOOOOOOO ANOTHER BLACK PERSON,’ the text is alleged to have read, according to the lawsuit.
But instead of reaching her husband, the text was instead sent to her new nanny, Giselle Maurice. who had just started working for her family on first day the job.
Lynsey Plasco-Flaxman allegedly thought she was sending a racist text to her husband, Joel
Instead, the text was sent directly to the nanny, Giselle Maurice, who was on her very first day
‘NOOOOOOOO ANOTHER BLACK PERSON,’ the text is alleged to have read, according to the lawsuit. Giselle Maurice is pictured
Adding further insult to injury, Plasco-Flaxman ended up sending the text for a second time when she never received a reply, again thinking she was texting her husband Joel.
After realizing the mistake she had made, she then sacked the experienced caretaker on the spot, saying she felt ‘uncomfortable.’
Plasco-Flaxman then attempted to justify her actions by saying that their outgoing nanny was African-American and had done a bad job, and that the family were expecting a Filipino.
Maurice, 44, is suing the Jewish couple who live in trendy Tribeca for discrimination and seeking compensation for the $63,000 in wages she was promised – $350-a-day for a six-month live-in gig.
‘I want to show them, look, you don’t do stuff like that,’ Maurice told New York Post. ‘I know it’s discrimination.’
She says the family only paid her was for a single days work before sending her back home in an Uber.’
‘I’m not someone who has millions of dollars lying around to just pay off people that are coming after me for extortion,’ Joel Placo said. He claimed his wife simply ‘made a mistake’
The Jewish couple who live in trendy Tribeca ended up paying Maurice $350 for a days work instead of honoring the full six months the family had agreed to
The family further attempted to justify their actions by saying that they couldn’t trust Maurice after they offended her.
Maurice, pictured, is now suing the family for $63,000 for loss of earnings
‘My wife had sent her something that she didn’t mean to say. She’s not a racist. We’re not racist people,’ Joel Plasco, co-chairman of the Dalmore Group investment bank, told The Post. ‘But would you put your children in the hands of someone you’ve been rude to, even if it was by mistake? Your newborn baby? Come on.’
Maurice countered that she would never have treated the child any differently because of her mom’s text, no matter how tasteless or inappropriate.
‘This is my reputation. Why would I do something to a baby?’ she said. ‘I was willing to work with her and prove her wrong, but it was her conscience, and she couldn’t work with me anymore.’
Maurice explained that she tried to settle the dispute through mediation but ended up filing the lawsuit after that failed.
The Plascos, who once ran the UK’s biggest brokerage firm, insist they don’t owe Maurice any money because there was no contract.
‘I’m not someone who has millions of dollars lying around to just pay off people that are coming after me for extortion,’ he said.