Sexual Wellness Firm Founder Gets 9 Years
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The founder of the sexual wellness company OneTaste was sentenced to nine years in prison for her role in a forced-labor scheme involving employees and participants in the firm’s educational courses who were coerced to perform sex acts, Patricia Hurtado and Ellen Huet report.
Nicole Daedone, who co-founded OneTaste in 2004, was convicted in June after a jury in Brooklyn determined she and another OneTaste executive, Rachel Cherwitz, coerced victims — primarily women — into providing unpaid or underpaid menial labor. During the scheme that ran for more than a decade, some were ...