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Saturday 7 March 2015

Booze exec dumped champagne with strippers for ‘revenge’!



Joseph Eger goaded his former employer with these photos after being dropped by the fancy champagne producer.       

     

A top salesman at a booze distributor got revenge for being dropped by a champagne producer by sending a female exec at the bubbly company shots of him pouring out its wine while being fondled by a stripper.

Joseph Eger, director of sales for Southern Wine & Spirits, had a wide grin as he poured out two bottles — or about $1,000 worth — of Laurent-Perrier’s rosé champagne at the Hustler Club in Manhattan while a dancer gripped his crotch.

His stunt, which came after the vintner cut ties with Southern in favor of competitor The Winebow Group, drew a fierce Facebook response from the woman on the receiving end of the lewd photos.
“This behavior is precisely why we are terminating our relationship with Southern New York,” Sabine Latapie, New York state manager for Laurent-Perrier US, wrote on Facebook about 16 hours after the pictures were sent at 1:20 a.m. Friday.

“These are the men who line their pockets with YOUR money and laugh all the way to the bank,” she wrote in the missive addressed to “Wine Industry Professionals and Friends.”

Latapie — who edited out those comments Monday afternoon and set her page to private following inquiries from The Post — also wrote that the photos illustrated “a story of what happens when great wine falls into the hands of bad people.”

A bottle of Laurent-Perrier’s pink bubbly retails for around $75, but commands a steep $500 at the West Side jiggle joint. A source said Southern supplies its booze and management knows Eger and district manager Dimitrios Kaloudis.

But they still had to pay the going rate and shell out $1,000 — plus tax and tip — to spill the sparkling wine into an ice bucket.

“They were having a good time and they said they were just doing it as a joke,” the source said. “They didn’t create a problem.”
Eger was assisted in some shots by Kaloudis, who put his hand on one of the bottles.
In addition to the stripper with the roving hand, the photos feature a third, unidentified man who gripped a drink as he looked on in approval.

Latapie called Eger’s photo barrage “sexual harassment, but I won’t even go there.”

Latapie said Laurent-Perrier had severed ties with Southern Wine during the “past week.”

“I hoped that management would handle this news with class and decorum, but predictably this was not the case for some,” she wrote.

Latapie said she posted the pictures online because the “valued customers and avid Laurent-Perrier supporters . . . deserve to see the kind of behavior that goes on at the management level of this company in NY.”

“(And I want to make this clear: I am speaking only of the men pictured. I have many wonderful friends who work for SWS in NY and they’re nothing like this. This is for those men and for those men ONLY),” she added.

In an email to The Post on Monday, Latapie said she had “received an email apology from a few Southern executives but not from the sender himself (nor from the others in the picture).”

On Facebook, Latapie hinted at her firm’s new New York distributor by including the hashtag #WinebowHereWeCome.

Winebow spokeswoman Marilyn Krieger confirmed the deal, adding, “We’re all very excited.”

Eger refused to comment Monday evening, while Southern Wine’s spokesman and Kaloudis didn’t return messages.

Source: http://pagesix.com/

             


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