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Equinox janitors are tiring of cleaning dirty laundry left behind from sexual trysts in the club’s private areas:

Several disgusted janitors are dishing dirt on the Equinox fitness center chain, claiming in a lawsuit filed yesterday that the upscale gyms are used as sleazy gay sex clubs.

The six janitors charge in the Manhattan Supreme Court suit that they are fed up with cleaning up after male gym members engage in “explicit sexual activity.”

The janitors cited five Manhattan clubs, including the chain’s flagship gym in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, as places where “lewd behavior” is rampant in the men’s locker rooms, showers, saunas and steam rooms.

When the maintenance men complained to management, they were “ridiculed” and subjected to “hostile” treatment, the lawsuit claims.

Equinox officials called the charges “frivolous” and deemed unfounded by separate investigation by federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

“It’s just not an issue here at Equinox,” said the chain’s Chief Operating Officer Scott Rosen.

But janitors Jaisiin Bethea, Freddy Gonzalez, Jason Guishard, Omar Harris, Alex Mass and Rodney Vanterpool say they have frequently interrupted members having sex.

The janitors, who have all resigned from Equinox, are asking for unspecified damages and arguing their civil and human rights were violated.

Posted: January 4th, 2007 | Filed under: That's An Outrage!
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