Three years after the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against a Greeley bar, its owners must pay $100,000 to 13 former employees.

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Starlite Station was a western bar and dance hall that operated near the Greeley Mall from 2018 until 2021, when the bar closed after its lease was terminated. The EEOC says this case is an example of how closing a business does not mean owners can escape liability.

Sophia McElroy has mixed feelings about her time at Starlite Station, a now-shuttered western-themed bar in Greeley where she worked in 2020 and 2021.

"It was super great, until it wasn't," McElroy said.

As a Starlite "shot girl" at the ages of 19 and 20, McElroy says she experienced sexual harassment from the bar's owner, James

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