A flight attendant on Oprah Winfrey‘s private jet has filed a lawsuit against the talk show host, denying allegations that she had sex on board.
Corrine Gehrls, 39, was fired for allegedly having sex with chief pilot Terry Pansing, 57, while on the ground to refuel during a flight, while Oprah and other passengers slept “following their ingestion of sleeping pills.”
According to the lawsuit, the claims were made by fellow flight attendants Myron Gooch and Kirby Bumpus (the daughter of Winfrey’s best friend Gayle King), after Pansing reportedly complained about his work schedule, sometimes required that his hours be shifted so he could fly back to Chicago to “attend to his cats,” and insisted on staying in better hotels than the rest of the flight crew.
Pansing and Gehrls have both passed polygraph tests, but have not been rehired.
Gehrls is seeking more than $75,000 in damages from Gooch, Bumpus and Harpo Inc.