[San Diego Tribune]James Jackson, the former vice president of legal affairs at Sony Pictures, may have heard that movie executives were slave drivers, but the former Hollywood studio attorney and his wife may have taken things a little too literally.
Jackson and his wife were sentenced Monday for abusive treatment of their Filipino maid in a case federal prosecutors said “amounts to modern-day slavery.”
U.S. District Judge Dale Fisher remarked:
“It seems she treated her dog much better than she treated her victim.”
The couple's former maid, Nena Ruiz, was awarded $825,000 in damages by a jury in 2004 after she sued the Jacksons. Ruiz alleged the couple forced her to work 18-hour days at their Culver City condominium for several months from 2001 to 2002.
Ruiz claimed that Elizabeth Jackson regularly slapped her and pulled her hair. Ruiz also said she was forced to sleep on a dog bed and was given three-day-old food to eat even as she was expected to clean and provide fresh fruit to the Jacksons' pets.
The Jacksons only paid her $300 for her work, and threatened to turn her over to immigration authorities if she left them, Ruiz claimed. She said she finally fled after she was hit in the mouth with a water bottle.
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