Imagine getting a text that reads, “Your ass in that photo is the perfect cum target.” Now imagine that text came from your boss. Now imagine your boss is notorious creep and founder of American Apparel Dov Charney. Now imagine this: dozens of women say they had to deal with that on a daily basis.

The lurid text messages were released Friday as part of a motion intended to prevent Charney from filing any more lawsuits against the company, which fired him for good last December.

And apparently for good reason: the company says Charney kept tons of explicit emails, texts, videos and photos stored on company servers. And they are downright disgusting.

And apparently it wasn’t all talk:

But he wasn’t a total idiot (yes he was): the suit notes there was evidence that “Mr. Charney attempted to destroy evidence of his sexual liaisons, sending emails to employees asking them to ‘delete naughty emails!’”

All in all, Charney’s dick ended up costing the company close to $10 million in litigation costs, only some of which was covered by insurance.

Further, Charney’s alleged vocal disdain for Jews, Mexicans, Filipinos, gay people, weak people, and, of course, women, also had somewhat of a negative effect on morale.

And of course, there was the time this happened. Honestly, it’s incredible American Apparel hasn’t burned to the ground.


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