Randi Zuckerberg Says She Was Sexually Harassed on an Alaska Airlines Flight

Randi Zuckerberg, a Silicon Valley executive, said Wednesday evening that a male passenger on her Alaska Airlines flight had repeatedly sexually harassed her and that flight attendants had dismissed her complaints.

Ms. Zuckerberg said the harassment began as soon as she boarded the flight on Wednesday, traveling from Los Angeles to Mazatlán, Mexico. Before the plane even departed the gate, a man seated next to her in first class asked her if she fantasized about a female colleague who was traveling with her, and then he provided vulgar commentary about the women who walked by him as they boarded, she said in a Facebook post.

“Feeling furious, disgusted and degraded after an Alaska Airlines flight during which the passenger next to me made repeated lewd, inappropriate, and offensive sexual remarks to me,” said Ms. Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Zuckerberg Media, a marketing and production company. She was formerly an executive at Facebook, which her brother, Mark Zuckerberg, co-founded.

Ms. Zuckerberg said that she and her colleague both reported the man’s behavior to the flight attendants, who, she added, shrugged off their complaints, saying that he was a frequent flier who was known to act that way.

During the three-hour flight, the man was given multiple alcoholic drinks, she said, and continued to harass her the entire time. At one point, Ms. Zuckerberg said, a flight attendant stopped by the man’s seat and said with a laugh, “Are you behaving today?”

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