Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Settlement reached in sexual harassment suit involving nightclub operator

A settlement has been reached in a sexual harassment lawsuit against the N9NE Group at the Palms hotel-casino in Las Vegas, restaurateur Michael Morton and other officials who used to run the N9NE Group.

Leslie Culler filed the suit in December in U.S. District Court for Nevada, charging she was wrongly fired as art director of the N9NE Group after complaining about the advances of male executives.

Attorneys for Morton denied the allegations and a settlement was reached last week during a private "early neutral evaluation session" in the chambers of U.S. Magistrate Judge Lawrence Leavitt.

Culler's attorney, Andre Lagomarsino, of the Las Vegas law firm Parker Scheer Lagomarsino, said Monday that because of a confidentiality provision in the settlement agreement all he could say was that that the parties "reached a mutually satisfactory settlement of all claims."

The suit was filed amidst litigation pitting Morton against Palms owner George Maloof Jr. and disgruntled N9NE Group investors.

Those lawsuits centered on charges Morton had used company assets to develop his La Cave restaurant at Wynn Las Vegas and countercharges that Maloof and the investors were wrongly trying to push Morton out of their lucrative nightclub and restaurant enterprise at the Palms.

That litigation was also settled, with Morton selling his share of the N9NE Group and leaving that business.

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