All these years, we thought they were the dullard cousins of real music magazines — but Billboard may actually be a veritable Plato's Retreat of whoring, harassment, and philandery, according to a $29-million lawsuit filed today by two former top editors:

(Executive Editor Ken) Schlager and the junior level female employee engaged in horseplay in a hotel swimming pool during which she lost the bottom half of the bikini bathing suit she had been wearing, and Schlager touched her in a sexual manner. This reported incident took place in the presence and full view of other VNU employees." The young women later received a promotion...

Heh. Good for her! Oh, and there's this whole other bit about the magazine publisher advising the staff not to "piss off" advertisers... whatever, sounds bad, I guess. Whee! Bottomless bikini pool party promotions all around!
Fired Billboard Staffers Seek Millions in Harassment Suit [Folio]