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A Manhattan sales rep with Life Alert — famous for its ads featuring the line, “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up!” — is suing her former employer for $15 million, claiming sexual harassment.

Irith Hayblum, 62, says in the Manhattan civil suit that ex-boss Gavriel Gonen, 48, often cornered her in her cubicle and rubbed his body against hers while grabbing her breasts, warning, “Don’t move.”

Hayblum’s attorneys, Ali Harwin and Jeremy Heisler, called the case “extreme” because Gonen’s behavior was allegedly encouraged by CEO Isaac Shepher.

Gonen and Shepher did not return messages for comment.

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