A hearing is now scheduled for a employment tribunal which was taken against the Groucho club by a former high ranking employee. The employee is alleging that a manager of the club subjected him to a campaign of sexual harassment and on several occasions sexual assault.

It is alleged that there is CCTV evidence of this allegation of sexual assault floating around and may even be on you tube. Apparently this CCTV evidence was obtained by Murphy and was lodged at the Murphy V Groucho hearing in Newport County Court when Margaret Levin threw her toy out of the pram and shouted at the Judge.

The Groucho Club legal team tried to have the CCTV evidence thrown out but Murphy was adamant that this evidence formed part of his own case as it was alleged it demonstrated that the same individual concerned harassed Murphy over a period of a year and a half and lead to the famous libel trial that the Groucho lost in such a wretched and embarrassing way

There are now Rumours that Margaret Levin is now being ousted from the Groucho Club as managing director because of her handling of the whole affair with Murphy and she may be replaced by a manager from the clubs competition Soho House

Meanwhile Murphy has been actively seeking information about CCTV cameras at the Groucho and certain CCTV footage of him. He has offered £100,000 for the footage of an incident at the Groucho he was involved in on the evening the 12th June 2008 . He is also seeking information on anyone who edited the CCTV footage of this date on behalf of the Groucho Club

Murphy has uncovered information from staff about the 12.5% discretionary charges club member are subjected to when they use their credit cards at the Club. Murphy felt that members should know that most of the discretionary charge goes to the Groucho Club and the staff gets only 2.5% of the 12.5%. Murphy based this on a tronc document dated 2008 that was leaked from the club

This document says that the lion’s share of the tronc tips go to the House. The amount for the month was £21,198.37 in applicable tips. Out of this the house, the Groucho Club receives 10% of the 12% in tips which was £16,958.70. The staff got 2.5% of the 12.5% which was £4,238.

Murphy has also brought to light an incident when an outsider (not an employee of the club) accessed the new CCTV system of the Groucho Club and sent creepy e mails to reception staff informing them they were being monitored and wanted to know their names. Staff contacted Murphy so he would do something about this; He did and also contacted the Information Commissioners Office on behalf of the staff members.

It might be time for the Groucho Club to realise that Murphy is not going away nor is he giving up

The Manageing Director of the Groucho Club, Margaret Ann Levin was last seen on the day of the court case in Wales leaving the Court House while ranting and raving at her legal team and waving her arms in the air. She was shouting at the terrified legal team “I don’t bloody believe that this just happened”

Looks like Margaret’s nickname Cruella de’ville which is used by some of the Grouho Club Staff might hold some water
after all