NBC News has reached out to CBS Corporation, Fremantle Media, "The Price is Right" and Sandler for comments on the allegations raised in the lawsuits. Richards was later dropped as a defendant and the suit was settled in 2013, according to The Daily Beast. According to the lawsuit, Cole eventually quit the show because she didn't think her concerns were ever properly investigated. The suit claimed that around the time Richards stopped speaking to Cole he had begun an intimate relationship with another model.Ĭole also alleged that Sandler burst into her dressing room and berated her in front of her peers for not wearing a microphone.
"Plaintiff is informed and believes that none of the TPIR models were ignored by Defendant Richards or given notes in this manner," it stated, further alleging that "this dramatically changed the atmosphere in the workplace for Plaintiff." The suit said that Richards would write notes and give them to other models and staff to pass to Cole. "Specifically, without limitation, Defendant Richards refused to speak with Plaintiff about anything, work-related or not, under any circumstance," according to a copy of the lawsuit posted by the Times. The Sandler named in the suit is not the same person as the actor Adam Sandler.Īccording to the Los Angeles Times, model Lanisha Cole accused Richards in the lawsuit of treating her differently than the other models. Richards, along with Fremantle Media and producer Adam Sandler, were named as defendants. In 2011, another "Price is Right" model filed a lawsuit. A Los Angeles Superior Court judge later overturned it and Cochran and the defendants settled outside of court, documents show.
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The case went to trial and a jury awarded Cochran more than $8 million. She eventually learned that she had been terminated, according to the lawsuit. According to the complaint, Cochran had a difficult pregnancy and lost one of her twins due to an in-utero heart defect.Īfter her maternity leave ended, Cochran tried to return to "The Price is Right" but was not booked for work, the lawsuit stated. The suit also said that other producers made comments about Cochran's weight, her appearance and her eating habits.
It said that it was announced that she was expecting twins, Richards “asked her twice, in an annoyed tone, 'Twins? Are you serious? … You’re serious?”Ĭochran was booked less after that exchange with Richards, according to the lawsuit. The suit went on to allege that Cochran was pressured to reveal her pregnancy on-air because co-workers told her she was beginning to show.
According to the suit, the model later allegedly told Cochran that Richards had said to her: “Go figure! I fire five girls … what are the odds?”Ĭochran, the lawsuit said, took Richards' comment to mean that he would have fired her if he had known she was pregnant. It also accused Richards of telling another model that she would get more work because of Cochran's pregnancy. “Unlike other co-workers, he did not congratulate her on being pregnant.” “After learning of Cochran’s pregnancy, defendants’ executive producer Mike Richards did not talk to her as frequently as before,” the suit stated. Richards, who was a producer for the show, was not listed as a defendant but was accused in the suit of treating Cochran differently after she announced she was pregnant in late 2008. The suit, filed in March 2010, listed the defendants as CBS Corporation, CBS Television Network, Fremantle Media, and “The Price is Right.” One of the suits was filed by Brandi Cochran, a former model for "The Price is Right," who said she was fired after she became pregnant.
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