Staffers Sue “Gay” FL GOP Rep For Sexual Harassment

The Miami Herald reports:

Two former staffers for Florida Rep. Fabian Basabe filed a lawsuit Thursday detailing allegations of sexual harassment and unwanted touching by the freshman Republican lawmaker.

The lawsuit says Basabe made repeated lewd sexual comments and advances toward a legislative aide and an intern, slapped the aide’s butt without his consent while they attended an elementary school career day, and groped and tried to kiss a Florida State University graduate student in a car before hiring him as an intern.

The suit filed in Leon County Circuit Court also repeats a claim by Basabe’s former legislative aide in Tallahassee, Nicolas Frevola, that Basabe slapped Frevola across the face and told him to stand in a corner at a private event in January.

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Basabe first appeared here in May 2023 when he was heckled at Miami Beach Pride for voting for the “Don’t Say Gay” bill despite campaigning as an openly gay man and supporter of LGBTQ rights.

According to the Miami New Times, Basabe has in fact been married to a clothing heiress since 2005. Fashioning himself of a nightlife high roller, also in 2005 he appeared in the short-lived reality series Filthy Rich: Cattle Drive alongside Kourtney Kardashian.

That same year the New York Post reported that he was ejected from a Hamptons nightclub after allegedly hurling the N-word at black bouncers. The “controversies” section of his Wikipedia entry is really something and includes multiple arrests on a range of charges.