Michael Dell’s brother — a former partner at Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs — paid millions of dollars to a female junior staffer at the investment bank after he accidentally sent her a sexually explicit recording of himself, according to a report.
Adam Dell, a tech entrepreneur and the younger sibling of the billionaire pioneer behind Dell Computers, raised eyebrows and red flags with a work-related video sent to staffers while he was working remotely in 2020, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
The X-rated bonus footage of Dell was included in the video after he failed to realize that the camera was still on, the company determined, according to Bloomberg.
A female staffer who saw the video reportedly flagged it to her superiors, who then launched a review that roped in the most senior-level executives at the bank, including CEO David Solomon.
The worker demanded a $30 million payment due to the content of the video and the damage it could allegedly have had on her career, according to Bloomberg News.
Dell, 53, agreed to pay a multi-million dollar sum that was “much smaller” than the $30 million payout the woman originally sought, the outlet reported.
He left Goldman a few months after the sexually explicit video was seen, according to Bloomberg News.
Dell’s checkered departure didn’t prevent Goldman from bestowing upon him the honorific title of advisory director, given to former executives who leave on good terms, Bloomberg News reported.
When reached by The Post, a spokesperson for Goldman blasted the Bloomberg News report.
“As we told Bloomberg, their reporting contains significant factual errors and continues a pattern of leveraging unreliable sources,” Tony Fratto told The Post.
Dell, who made headlines in recent years for his highly publicized relationship with celebrity chef Padma Lakshmi, had been a partner with Goldman since 2018. At the time, Goldman acquired Clarity Money, a fintech app that Dell founded.
According to Bloomberg News, Goldman executives were upset by the woman’s decision to hire an attorney.
The executives reportedly held the view that the woman should have simply stopped watching the footage if she felt traumatized by what she saw, according to Bloomberg News.
Goldman has a sordid history over its treatment of female staffers.
Last month, Goldman agreed to pay $215 million to settle a years-long class action lawsuit that claimed the bank discriminated against women when it came to pay, performance evaluations, and promotions.
Scores of women employed at Goldman Sachs more than a decade ago alleged in the suit that they were subjected for years to discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault by male managers at the Wall Street giant.
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