The linked story says 50-year-old Catholic high school assistant Veronique "Boom Boom" Bonazzola was given her walking papers after 20 years at the school (located in the south of France) because of her appearance in the wild music video for the song "Fountain of Youth" by rapper Novia. But Boom Boom promptly busted out a big employment lawsuit against the party poopers at the school...
The honker hijinks in the video included the 27-year-old Novia chasing the bikini-clad Boom Boom around and -- after apparently catching her -- then dancing "suggestively" with Boom Boom, getting his drink on with her, and "pouring champagne down her chest in a jacuzzi." Hardly the sort of thing that would get your average school board all riled up, no?
But Boom Boom was canned nevertheless once the school got wind of her little jacuzzi jugs romp. Worse yet, Boom Boom says she initially feared the school was "going to burn me at the stake out in the school yard." (Man, these French and their harsh indictments.)
Boom Boom says she filed her wrongful termination lawsuit to get a "victory against injustice" since the school never gave her the "slightest warning" that sashaying around half naked in a rap video might threaten her employment.
Point well taken, said the court, which has ruled in her favor based on the school "not making clear to [Boom Boom] how her acting career might affect her day job."
And indeed, the school could've easily averted all this with a simple provision in Boom Boom's contract giving her fair warning, such as "Grounds for termination shall include dancing in a bikini on camera during a jacuzzi party while having champagne disseminated all over your mostly exposed breasts." Lesson learned.
http://www.lefigaro.fr/musique/2013/10/29/03006-20131029ARTFIG00463-la-surveillante-licenciee-pour-un-clip-de-rap-gagne-son-proces.php
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2480993/Catholic-school-assistant-50-fired-playing-bikini-clad-cougar-French-rap-video-wins-employment-tribunal.html
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