1. Raped twice in her office.
She went to Saks for help. Saks’s first question: “How much vacation time do you have?” Then Saks forced her out.
Evidence2. A child pornography victim, fired.
Predators made child pornography of Ms. Weidner and spread it online. Saks found out and called her a “corporate image” problem. Saks fired her.
Evidence3. Groped her breasts.
A coworker groped Ms. Malatesta’s breasts in a closed elevator. She reported it. Her supervisor’s answer: “Why don’t you sleep on it?” She was gone in days.
Evidence4. Stalked for 16 months.
A customer sexually assaulted Ms. Glapion in a dressing room, then stalked her for 16 months. She went to police. Saks fired her.
Evidence5. Body-slammed by a coworker.
Ms. Zarei, a Muslim, was mocked for her accent in front of customers, then body-slammed. She reported it. Saks fired her.
Evidence6. Calling the police: “not appropriate.”
A coworker rammed a shelf into Ms. Craft. She went to the ER and called police. Saks fired her.
EvidenceMy mom is the 7th victim.
My mom’s fileMy name is Dr. Jeff Vinokur. My mom worked minimum-wage at Saks until a customer followed her to the dressing rooms, then beat her. The police arrested and charged her attacker. Saks fired my mom 5 days later.
Shocked, I went looking and found 6 more women with the same horrifying pattern. Harassed. Beaten. Raped. Saks fired or forced out the victim every time.
I don’t want their money. I want answers. Saks paid 5 of these women to go away, so I’m paying 15 women to stand outside Saks on Fifth Avenue every single day until Saks answers for this.
Ask @Saks why.
They knew the whole time.
Saks has known since 1996. After a rape at Saks made national news, Saks took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling sexual assault an issue “none of us can afford to ignore.”
Five days later, their lawyers were still fighting that same rape victim, arguing that getting raped at work was just a natural risk of her desk job. Sounds made up? Read the articles.
And for the next 30 years, women who reported attacks at Saks faced punishment instead of protection.
Read the articlesTimeline & broken promises.
2026
My mom
Beaten by a customer. Fired.
Ongoing.
2024
Ms. Weidner
Child porn victim. Fired.
Settled.
2024
Ms. Malatesta
Breasts groped. Forced out.
Saks went bankrupt.
Erased her case.
Erased her case.
2024
Ms. Glapion
Sexually assaulted. Stalked. Fired.
Settled.
2021
Ms. Zarei
Harassed & beaten. Fired.
Settled.
2012
Ms. Craft
Attacked by a coworker. Fired.
Settled.
1994
Jane Doe
Raped twice. Forced out.
Settled.
How Saks fires a victim.
- The child porn victim.
Saks found out. The day she came back from bereavement leave, Saks fired her for using her employee discount. Saks settled.
- The stalking victim.
Saks kept letting her stalker in, then fired her for standing in the wrong section of the store. Saks settled 12 days before trial.
- The beating victim.
Saks told my mom not to call 911 and report an assault. She did. Police arrested her attacker on the spot. 5 days later, Saks fired her.
A company can legally write down any reason it wants. Proving the reason is fake means suing. These women sued. Saks settled every case before a jury could hear it.
Her sexual assault case was erased by Saks’s bankruptcy.
Ms. Malatesta sued Saks after a coworker groped her breasts in a closed elevator. Then, in 2026, Saks went bankrupt. The company disappeared on paper, then resurfaced under the same exact name, causing her sexual assault lawsuit to be “extinguished completely.” No trial. No jury. No second chance to sue. A corporate magic trick.
Saks: The Bare Minimum.
- Apologize.
The CEO, in public, to these women.
- Investigate.
Independent investigation of every attack. Made public.
- Clean house.
Fire those responsible for what happened to these women.
- Make it illegal.
Today, Saks can legally fire you for being attacked at work. In 1996 they backed a law to protect victims, then spent the next 30 years firing them. This time, the law happens. Every worker. Every company.
Ask @saks: why fire sexual assault victims?