Lawsuit: Senator from the State of California allegedly forced male employee to perform sexual acts

A California state senator coerced a former employee into performing sexual favors for him as part of a “quid pro quo” relationship while she was his boss, a new lawsuit alleges left him with back and hip injuries.

Chad Condit, former chief of staff to Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil, filed the lawsuit last week, alleging that the congresswoman – a longtime Democrat who recently defected to the Republican Party – pressured him to perform sexual acts on her during official trips.

The married assistant claims he gave in and committed the acts against his boss over the years as part of a “sex-based quid pro quo relationship” to protect his job, according to the lawsuit filed in Sacramento Superior Court.

During their last encounter, Condit claims, he suffered a crippling back injury when he was forced to “twist and contort” while performing oral sex on the senator in a car – which left him with three herniated disks and a broken hip, according to court documents.

The employee claims he began using his back injury as an excuse to reject Alvarado-Gil's advances in August of last year, but she allegedly retaliated by giving him a disciplinary letter accusing him of inappropriate behavior.

Condit claims he was fired in December after repeatedly making it clear that sexual advances were no longer welcome and that he needed to undergo back surgery, the lawsuit says.

“This was a sex-based quid pro quo relationship involving unwanted advances and sexual conduct, coupled with punishment and displays of power,” the lawsuit states.

Alvarado-Gil is portrayed in the lawsuit as an “unpredictable” and “controlling” boss who allegedly committed a “sexually dominant abuse of authority and power” toward his assistant.

Condit, the son of former Congressman Gary Condit (D-Calif.), began working for Alvarado-Gil when she ran for her Senate seat as a Democrat in 2022.

When she was elected, he became her chief of staff.

Alvardo-Gil's lawyer, Ognian Gavrilov, has since rejected the allegations made by his former advisor.

“A disgruntled former employee fabricated a hair-raising story without evidence in order to get his pay,” Gavrilov said in a statement to The Washington Post.

“We expect the Senator to be exonerated of any wrongdoing related to these false, financially motivated claims.”

Alvarado-Gil, who represents a mostly rural district northeast of the Central Valley, made headlines last month after defecting to the Republican Party because her former party was unrecognizable under its current leadership and policies.

“In the last two years of my service in the Senate, I have not recognized the party to which I belong,” the MP said at the time.

“The Democratic Party is no longer the party I joined decades ago.”