Glamorous former news anchor is hit with extraordinary claims about her sex life
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A former news anchor and high ranking police official accused of a steamy affair with her boss is suing the city of Seattle for emotional distress.
Jamie Tompkins claims city officials should have done more to clamp down on gossip about her relationship with Seattle Police Department (SPD) Chief Adrian Diaz.
Both parties have denied any romantic relationship and Diaz even came out as gay after the rumors emerged.
However, an independent report into their behavior concluded the two were indeed lovers.
Tompkins is seeking $3 million in damages for distress she says was caused by rumors, FOX 13 reports.
'Words cannot describe the anguish and humiliation Tompkins experienced,' attorney Michael Submit wrote in a demand letter obtained by the outlet.
'Tompkins felt and still feels violated, degraded, and dehumanized. Tompkins is not the same person she was when she began employment with the City 18 months ago.'
She alleges the rumors exposed her to sexualized comments from other colleagues about her attractiveness.
Tompkins claims this includes a comment by Mayor Bruce Harrell in which he allegedly told Diaz it was okay the two had slept together because he himself would have been happy to 'do' the former TV star.
The accusation was narrated in a demand letter she sent to Harrell, in which she claimed that rumors about her and Diaz began after word got out she was leaving her position as a Fox 13 anchor to go and work for him at SPD.
Tompkins wrote that she tried to ignore the rumors but, 'it was much harder for [her] to do her job when a significant proportion of the SPD workforce believed she had received her position because of her physical appearance and sexual favoritism.'
She stated that she told SPD top brass and human resources that she was being sexually harassed and that officials initially quashed the rumors.
However, she alleged that former colleague Durand Dace who also joined SPD with her admitted to spreading the rumors. Dace was later fired over the conduct.
The Office of Police Accountability separately determined that another co-worker, officer Valerie Carson had not only spread the rumor but had illegally spied on Tompkins' apartment.
Tompkins claims she was told she had 'a massive sexual harassment case' by the SPD's lawyer over all that had allegedly happened to her.
Diaz was later hit by several claims of sexual harassment from other women and an outside investigation by The Office of Inspector General was commissioned.
By late October last year, both Tompkins and Diaz were put on administrative leave.
The OIG concluded that Diaz had 'an intimate or romantic relationship with a former SPD employee [Tompkins]' at the time she was hired which he did not disclose.
Both parties have disputed the findings and Tompkins claims she was not interviewed as part of the probe.
She resigned in November, while Diaz was fired in December. The cop of 27 years said he felt 'blindsided' by the decision and doubled down on his denial of having any inappropriate relations.
He later came out as gay in an interview for KTTH radio in which he claimed the situation forced him to out himself.
He has since brought a $10 million lawsuit against Harrell and other city employees and claims 'the city wrongfully discharged and discriminated, harassed and retaliated against former Chief Diaz when he expressed his sexual orientation to Mayor Harrell and Deputy Mayor Burgess, and refused to commit an illegal act'.
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