Lawyer and real-estate tycoon Jerome Mansour Karam is accused of sexually assaulting one of his employees, then lodging a $100 million defamation suit against the 21-year-old single mom for informing others—beginning with the cops—about the alleged attack.
“The trauma this man has put me and so many others through shouldn’t go unanswered,” Moore told The Daily Beast in a statement provided by Dao and co-counsel Cordt Akers. “I never wanted to be in court. I only wanted the truth to be known so that this never happens to anyone else.”Karam told The Daily Beast that he would provide a statement on Tuesday afternoon regarding Moore’s allegations, but had not yet followed up by the time this story was published.
A stunned Moore left the gym and burst into tears, calling her mother and a close friend immediately to tell them what had happened, according to the countersuit. “Karam was one of the county’s most prominent citizens, and the Texas City Police Department was now housing a new substation in Karam’s development—the Mainland City Center,” the suit states. “Knowing that Karam was out there and could be doing the same to other women, Moore spoke out on social media with a message in a group chat of young women who worked for Karam, warning them to never be alone in his presence. She felt the need to do so as a warning [to] others.
“I operate businesses which cannot be associated with a person who perpetrates such heinous acts,” it says. “I am a family man and community member, and such lies will cause severe harm to my reputation if allowed to persist. Defendant’s statements in her videos make clear she intends to continue her campaign of lies. She must be stopped or my reputation will be destroyed based on nothing but a pack of lies.
In response to Moore’s allegations, Karam has claimed that the sex was consensual, that Moore fabricated her story, that it “cannot possibly be true,” and that her speaking out has “somehow defamed him,” her filing states. “The reality is, Karam has engaged in numerous, unacceptable actions with numerous individuals. This stops now.”
According to Moore’s countersuit, Karam regularly carried on inappropriate relationships with his staff, buying one woman a car and paying for her breast augmentation procedure, but lashing out when things didn’t go his way. When one of Karam’s property managers declined an invitation to sit in his lap, the filing says Karam chastised her in front of her colleagues and didn’t speak to her again for nearly two years.
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