A former manager of an East End catering business was forced to quit her job after retaliation for speaking out against sexual harassment by the owner and the owner's romantic and business partner, a lawsuit alleges.

Emma Beudert left her position as a catering operations manager at East Hampton Kitchen after owner Annie Washburn and her partner, Michael Castiglione, engaged in sexually explicit conversations with her and propositioned her subordinates, according to a suit filed in Suffolk County Supreme Court last month.

"These interactions continued for months, and Ms. Beudert incessantly expressed her discomfort with said conversations, and asked for a level of professionalism to be maintained at work, to little or no avail," the lawsuit said.

After Beudert repeatedly rejected the co

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