Jeffries was deposed in Ohio two years ago as part of the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Philadelphia by corporate jet pilot Michael Stephen Bustin, who is now 55 and claimed he was fired and replaced by a younger man. The suit, brought in April 2010, has uncovered Jeffries’s specifications for the airplane’s attendants, from how they were to address him and his guests to the
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The plaintiff pursued additional discovery after
abercrombie and fitch sydney handed over hundreds of handwritten notes from its former director of procurement, Scott Mayer. The judge had also ordered depositions of a former Abercrombie human resources manager and a Jeffries Family Office representative.
If credited, Mayer’s notes “may well offer compelling proof that Matthew Smith, the life partner of
abercrombie australia online CEO Michael Jeffries, allegedly acting at Jeffries’s direction, illegally ordered Plaintiff’s termination because of Plaintiff’s age,” Diamond wrote in the Nov. 8 order.
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The pilot’s case is Bustin v.
abercrombie australia, 10- cv-01675, U.S. District, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia).
