{"id":83853,"date":"2025-12-11T00:59:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83853\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:59:06","slug":"dallas-ceo-must-pay-5-7m-in-workplace-harassment-case-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/83853\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas CEO must pay $5.7M in workplace harassment case \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas real estate CEO Robert \u201cBob\u201d Lovell was ordered this week to pay $5.7 million in damages and fees after a judge determined he repeatedly forced a former employee to perform sex acts and then retaliated against her when she refused.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling, issued Monday by Dallas County Court at Law Judge Sally Montgomery, is the first to hold an individual Texas business owner or employee personally liable under a law that went into effect in 2021, according to the woman\u2019s attorney, Rogge Dunn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis judgment sends a message: Executives and employees who sexually harass employees and then retaliate when those employees stand up for themselves will face significant consequences,\u201d Dunn said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Lovell, president and owner of Home Marketing Services Inc., is well known in the Dallas area for his television commercials in which he urges people to \u201cstop making your landlord richer and give us a call.\u201d The ads famously carried the tagline \u201cbless your heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/2025\/12\/10\/dallas-ceo-known-for-bless-your-heart-ads-ordered-to-pay-57m-in-sexual-assault-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Click here to read more on the case from our partners at The Dallas Morning News.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas real estate CEO Robert \u201cBob\u201d Lovell was ordered this week to pay $5.7 million in damages and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,581,104,103],"class_list":["post-83853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-county","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}