Two former nannies of a Wall Street millionaire filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against him and his girlfriend after they referred to them as “dirty Jamaicans.”
Cislyn Wright and Cordia Foster were live-in nannies for Ogden Phipps II co-founder Ian K. Snow and his girlfriend, Elyse Dula, in Manhattan. Foster began working for the couple in 2017, and Wright began in 2018. The women lived with Snow, Dula and four children at their rental home in the Hamptons as well as the couple’s New York mansion once owned by Rupert Murdoch.
The women said they were stereotyped by the couple from the beginning of their employment and were referred to as “dirty Jamaicans” and “black b—s.”
The first incident happened in January of 2020 after the family’s kitten got outside, prompting Dula to say, “Those black b—s!”
The lawsuit also claimed that in May of 2020, Dula said, “I’m happy to be getting these dirty Jamaicans out of my house” when the servants’ quarters were almost finished. Foster and Wright also claimed that they were accused of stealing as well as trespassing after they were terminated in August of 2020.
The lawsuit alleges that the women were let go for several reasons including using their cell phones, bathing the children in hot water and ignoring the children.
The two nannies were also accused of being “hostile” to Dula and threatening to do “black magic” on the couple. The women also said they were told, “Elyse hates you Jamaicans” by the couple’s personal assistant, Tamela Walsh.
The lawsuit also claims that the couple tried to get the nannies to quit their jobs by cutting their pay in half. Documents also said that Snow and Dula blocked the nannies’ ability to see outside by covering the kitchen window of the servants’ quarters.
The women filed the racial discrimination lawsuit in December of 2021 in New York. Court documents showed that the former nannies suffered from…
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