A blonde beauty wagering on a long career in online sports betting instead found herself groped, harassed, and propositioned by horny male clients who deemed her “the new Paige Spiranac.”
The incessant harassment culminated in an incident in Atlantic City, when Caroline Weeks claims a drunken customer of PointsBet USA repeatedly tried to touch her, then followed her around a company event at a casino for nearly an hour until local cops intervened.
“I broke down that evening,” she told The Post. “I felt completely alone in that moment and my privacy was just utterly forgotten about. . . . It was scary, when you’re dealing with intoxicated men who are much bigger than you and older than you. I think people who don’t understand the word ‘no’ are dangerous people.”
Weeks, 25, was hired as a senior player development manager for PointsBet in January 2022, and claims clients immediately began coming on to her, asking to take selfies with her and making comments such as, “You got this job because you’re hot” and “So, you’re like the new Paige Spiranac.”
Weeks, who hails from Connecticut and has nearly 32,000 followers on Instagram, said she has no problem with Spiranac, a former pro golfer who frequently shows off her cleavage for her 3.9 million followers and has done commercials for PointsBet.
“With Paige, she chooses to monetize her image, her personality, and body. I get it. She has the looks and she chose to run with it. Me, however, I have a completely different job. I wasn’t there to be a glamorized poster girl for the job, I was there to do a job and do it professionally. . . . My job was to not to get a flirt on with clients.”
Weeks claims PointsBet did nothing to stop the harassment, which forced her to quit about 10 months into the job, according to court papers seeking unspecified damages.
Another client grabbed her and tried to kiss her after a business dinner, she contends in a Manhattan Federal Court lawsuit she filed against the company.
The man then got her home address “and sent her a dozen roses, in an unwanted and creepy attempt at a romantic gesture,” she said in court papers.”
One client earned a round of laughter on the golf course after declaring, “If I get the ball in the hole, Caroline gives me a b—job.”
“I think you’d be a fool to think that I deserved sex harassment based on the images I share on social media,” she said. “It’s not OK — a real man would know that.”
“You don’t surrender your rights to be free of sexual harassment” by posting on social media, said her lawyer, Rachel Haskell.
A PointsBet spokesman said the company had “a zero-tolerance policy with regard to harassment and we take these matters very seriously” while declining further comment.
