#NYC hospitals honcho made worker watch porn, commented that her ‘butt spreads’

A honcho in the city’s Health and Hospitals Corporation tricked his employee into watching porn, groped her and even made creepy comments about how her “butt spreads” when she bent over, a new lawsuit alleges.

Lisa Alexander says while she worked for Health Hospitals in the Behavior Health and Finance Department, her boss, Lancelot Deygoo, constantly sexually harassed her starting in 2016 and she was eventually driven out in January because of her complaints against him, a Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit alleges.

By August 2017 — despite Alexander’s 2016 complaint to the Office of Equal Employment about the harassment — Alexander was made to be Deygoo’s personal secretary, and he would ask her to massage him daily, constantly comment on her body, send inappropriate text messages to her outside of work hours and even once groped her butt while she was talking to another employee, the court documents claim.

Deygoo allegedly said, “Oh my God, look how her butt spreads“ and “Look how you spread when you get down, your boyfriend must have fun with that,” the court filings claim.

The 31-year-old single mother says Deygoo also had screenshots of Instagram photos of her in a bikini on vacation stored on his phone, despite the fact that they weren’t even friends on the app, the court papers allege.

And one time in June 2016, when Deygoo was showing off virtual reality glasses at work, he had Alexander try them out, abruptly switching her view of a nature scene to a video of a woman giving a man oral sex, the suit claims.

This treatment made Alexander feel “obligated to state she was still with her ex-boyfriend at work out of fear that she would receive even worse overtly sexual advance from defendant Deygoo if he discovered she was single,” the court papers allege.

After an alleged August 2018 incident in which Deygoo “slapped and then caressed her buttocks while she was bending over trying to show a co-worker how to do something on her computer,” Alexander filed a second complaint with the EEO, the court papers say.

“It was pretty depressing to have to deal with that all the time,” Alexander told The Post. “I was always anxious and worried. I know it took a big emotional toll on me.”

Alexander said she even tried dressing differently to avoid Deygoo’s comments.

“I would be super covered-up to make sure he wouldn’t make any comments … but there would still be comments,” she said.

At Alexander’s request, she was transferred to another division in October 2018, but she still worked on the same floor as Deygoo and interacted with him weekly, the court documents claim.

Alexander applied to transfer to another position, for which she was the top contender, in September 2019, but found out she ultimately didn’t get the job because the director of Human Resources had intervened, claiming Alexander was absent a lot, the court papers claim.

Then when Alexander got a promotion at a post at Bellevue Hospital with a significant pay raise in January, she discovered that the same HR director had again intervened and Bellevue rescinded the offer, the court papers allege.

The HR director gave “pretextual” reasons why Alexander shouldn’t be promoted, in retaliation for Alexander’s prior complaints against Deygoo, the court papers claim.

Alexander quit in January.

Now Alexander said, “I feel like it did affect my self-esteem. I feel more anxiety when it comes to my appearance … somebody can make a simple comment and I just automatically think it’s more because of what I went through.”

Alexander’s lawyer, John Scola, told The Post his client “was subjected to severe and pervasive sexual harassment for years.

“When she complained of the unlawful discrimination she was denied promotions and retaliated against by the highest ranking official whose job it is to prevent discrimination, the director of Human Resources.”

Deygoo declined to comment other than to confirm he still works for the city.

City Law Department spokesman Nicholas Paolucci said, “We will respond to these allegations as we proceed in the litigation.”

Heath Hospitals said it can’t comment on ongoing litigation, adding it “is committed to providing a safe and comfortable work environment for all staff. Sexual harassment in our workspaces is unacceptable and all allegations are investigated appropriately.”