
Tropic suit accent-uated
A busty bombshell’s lawsuit against a Times Square bikini bar has legs, a Manhattan judge ruled yesterday.
Melody Morales says she wasn’t hired by Hawaiian Tropic Zone because managers told her “You have a Latin accent,” “You don’t speak white” and “you are ghetto.”
Morales, 22, filed suit, saying she was discriminated against because she is Puerto Rican.
Hawaiian Tropic Zone said the decision had nothing to do with her race and asked a judge to toss the suit, but he refused, finding that Morales had “sufficiently alleged that the restaurant discriminated against her” because of her accent.
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