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Former Riot employee sues CEO for sexual harassment

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In a case filed in January, former Riot Games employee Sharon O’Donnell alleges that chief executive officer Nicolo Laurent sent her suggestive propositions in text messages. O’Donnell detailed the complaints in her sexual harassment case against the executive in the Superior Court for the State of California in Los Angeles.

O’Donnell claims that Laurent told her to “cum” to his house while his wife was traveling. He also mentioned that his wife was jealous of “beautiful women” as well as the size of his underpants. The complaint goes on to describe more of O’Donnell’s claims regarding Laurent’s “pattern of harassing [O’Donnell] based on her sex or gender.”

The former Riot employee says