Left: Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil (California Legislature). Right: a text exchange included as an exhibit in Chad Condit’s lawsuit (court docs).
Nearly one month after a California state senator switched from the Democratic Party to the Republican Party, her former campaign manager and chief of staff, who happens to be the son of Gary Condit, has filed a sexual harassment, discrimination, and unlawful retaliation lawsuit claiming that his back was injured while twisting and contorting in the “confined space” of a car after Marie Alvarado-Gil demanded oral sex during work-related travel together.
The lawsuit filed in Sacramento Superior Court against Alvarado-Gil and the California State Senate last Thursday by Chad Condit claimed that his former boss, married three times, was aware that he was the son of Gary Condit — the former Democratic congressman from California remembered for an alleged affair and the subsequent disappearance and death of Bureau of Prisons intern Chandra Levy, for which another man was convicted, granted a new trial, and then deported after charges were dropped. Alvarado-Gil allegedly made comments that she “assumed PLAINTIFF would be like his father—insinuating that he should be open to a sexual relationship with her.”
Chad Condit, who said he “was” married at the time, alleged that the state senator began grooming him after he was hired in December 2022, talked about “sex and using the drug, ayahuasca, and taking gummies,” claimed her third husband cheated on her, giving her “a lifetime free pass (to cheat),” and that she even named her frog after him.
Starting in March 2023, the lawsuit claimed, Alvarado-Gil hired Condit’s wife to work on her campaign, started “going to the same beautician” as his wife, and asked him “what his feelings are about ‘throuples’ and whether PLAINTIFF thought his wife would be into that.”
Condit claimed that there was an incident where he and Alvarado-Gil were traveling together for work-related reasons and, as soon as he got back from using a bathroom they stopped at, she was in the car with her “legs spread.”
“When he came back to the car, she had her pants pulled down and said, ‘I want you to kiss it and prove your loyalty.’ She had her legs spread and turned towards him exposing her vagina,” the lawsuit said. “Her direction was for him to submit to her demand and to orally pleasure her vagina.”
The plaintiff claimed that in that moment Alvarado-Gil’s alleged “months of creating a dominant-submissive relationship” and the “power [she had] over his career and livelihood” left him numb, so he “briefly performed as demanded until she was satisfied by his submission to her” — while severely injuring his back to such a degree that the senator pushed him around in a wheelchair at a casino in August 2023.
“During the last occasion where PLAINTIFF performed oral sex as demanded by ALVARADO-GIL, PLAINTIFF suffered a back injury while performing in a car seat with his body having to twist and contort in the confined space of the car,” the suit alleged. “PLAINTIFF later went to the doctor and discovered that the injury was more severe, and that PLAINTIFF had suffered three herniated discs in his back and a collapsed hip.”
After Condit later “began to refuse and object” to oral sex demands, Alvarado-Gil and her “deputy chief/childhood buddy” Vanessa Bravo took steps to get him fired and the state senator tried to ruin his marriage, the suit alleged.
“ALVARADO-GIL also began accusing PLAINTIFF of having a girlfriend. Privately, ALVARADO-GIL said that PLAINTIFF would not work for anyone but her, which confirmed the threat to his job security and public employee position posed by refusing her sexualized behavior and demands,” the complaint said. “After PLAINTIFF communicated his opposition, ALVARADO-GIL went to PLAINTIFF’s home with a staff member and falsely told his wife that PLAINTIFF was seeing someone to cause him distress. PLAINTIFF was home sick at the time and heard the conversation.”
The lawsuit demanded a jury trial on claims of quid pro quo harassment, hostile work environment sexual harassment, discrimination, retaliation, and more.
After the suit was filed, Alvarado-Gil’s lawyer Ognian Gavrilov told local ABC affiliate KXTV that Condit’s claims are “outlandish” and will be shown to be “bogus” and about money.
“A disgruntled former employee has fabricated an outlandish story, presented without evidence, to get a payday,” Gavrilov reportedly said. “We expect that the senator will be fully cleared of any wrongdoing of these bogus, financially motivated claims.”
As recently as Aug. 9, Alvarado-Gil announced that after “deep reflection” she was leaving the Democratic Party.
“Since my first day in office, I have put the interests of my constituents first. I was elected to serve the public, not a political ideology,” said a statement from the senator. “The status quo under a supermajority Democratic rule in the legislature is simply not working for this state. It is after deep reflection I announce that I will be joining the Senate Republican Caucus and the California Republican Party in their fight to fix California.”
Read the lawsuit here.
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