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Stringer’s Strange Dating History & Accusations of Sex Misconduct Revealed

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By: Ellen Cans

Scott Stringer, currently the City Comptroller as well as a candidate for NYC Mayor, has been accused of sexually harassing a former campaign worker. Stringer, 61, has responded to the allegations by saying that the relationship was consensual, and that it occurred before he was married. Stringer who is generally polling in third or fourth place for the Mayoral race, shook off several calls from politicians for him to drop out of the race due to the allegations.

Jean Kim, 49, said Stringer made advances which were unwanted, including groping her in a taxi and asking repeatedly “Why won’t you f–k me?” He allegedly promised to help make her the first Asian-American district leader, Kim said. “He never had my consent to any physical contact at all, nor did he even seek my consent,” Kim said in a statement to The Post. “He took for granted that he could do what he wanted and disregarded my humanity. You can call yourself an advocate for women and under-represented communities, but if you take advantage of women who are younger, inexperienced and without the privileges you enjoy, you are not fooling anyone that you are a person of integrity, much less a leader.”

Stringer replied by saying that he and Kim had what he thought was “a mutual, consensual relationship” which was “on-and-off relationship over a few months”. He noted she was not an intern, but a campaign volunteer, and maintained he never used foul language as Kim alleged. “I don’t talk that way. That’s not the language I use and I didn’t use that language ever,” he insisted. Stringer added the possibility that other women might come forward, explaining “You know, I’ve dated.” “I don’t expect it. But, look, I didn’t expect this set of allegations,” he told ‘Good Day New York’ in an April interview.

As reported by the NY Post, in 2001, during that time when he allegedly harassed Kim, Stringer had a girlfriend, Jeanne Salvatore, who lived together with him in a one-bedroom apartment at 326 Columbus Ave, as per public records. Stringer was at the time a state Assemblyman running for the position of public advocate, and Salvatore was then a spokeswoman for the Insurance Information Institute.

Salvatore, currently a media consultant and adjunct professor of communications at City College, told the Post, “I just cannot talk.” A spokesman for Stringer refused to comment.

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