Equinox Hit By $11.2 Million Bias Trial Verdict, Lawyers Say (1)

Equinox Holdings Inc. must pay $11.25 million in damages to a former trainer after a Manhattan federal jury ruled Tuesday that the luxury gym chain fostered a hostile work environment and fired the trainer based on her race and gender, her attorneys said Tuesday in an emailed press statement.

Röbynn Europe alleged in her complaint that Equinox failed to investigate repeated racist and sexually inappropriate behaviors at its East 92nd Street gym location, then used “lateness” as pretext to target and fire her in September 2019. In 2020, she sued the company in the US District Court for the Southern ...