When the Presidents Club invites you to a charity dinner, there's only one way for women to do it: apply as a hostess. Because apart from the staff, the annual charity event of the club is a pure men's round. Again this year, the guest list included numerous CEOs, politicians, successful brokers and financial experts. The three criteria that all 360 guests had to meet were the same as every year: being male, influential and wealthy.

'Well, then as a hostess,' thought Madison Marriage, journalist for the Financial Times, and submitted her application. Coincidentally, the editor brings just calculated the qualifications that the employer requires for this job: be "tall, slim and pretty", Together with 129 other tall, slender, pretty women she was selected by the responsible agency Artista, to give the generous gentlemen an unforgettable evening. Your six-hour allowance: 150 pounds (172 euros) plus 25 pounds (29 euros) for the taxi.

A guest bared his penis

While the gentlemen in suit and tie appeared to the donation gala, was the dress code for the ladies: the little black with corsage belt, high heels and black underwear. To "take office" gave it a 5-page consent to sign and drink a glass of welcome white wine. In return, the women's phones were cashed. In the end, the hostesses were given the warning to hear that some guests might become "annoying" or try to make the service drunk.

In reality, this "annoying" thing went something like this: "During the six hours many hostesses were groped, dressed and invited to escort guests to their room at the Dorchester [the hotel where the event took place]. that some men kept tucking them in. A hostess reported that a guest showed her his bare penis this evening. "

"Tear your underwear and dance on the table"

At the same time, the gentlemen showed generosity: 2.3 million pounds went to charity this January night. One of the auctioneers' auctions was a party in a London strip club with up to 100 friends and 50 dancers. Even a beauty surgery came under the hammer with the teaser "Spice up your wife a bit".

After the compulsory program, many of the almost 500 people present at the after party went on? Hostesses, of course, sincerely welcome (Marriage wrote in her article that the presence of women was more or less expected).

At the latest there was the first warning from possible attempts to make the women drunk, truth: "You still look too sober," said one of the "gentlemen" to a hostess, "snuggled" to his stomach and her a glass of champagne "offered". "I want you to drink ex, rip your underwear and dance on the table."

Children's Hospital rejects donation

The disillusionment of the party guests after the fundraiser was only a few days in the coming: On Tuesday, Marriages revelation article appeared in the online edition of the Financial Times. Since then it hails criticism of the traditional Sause? and consequences are also drawn.

For example, the Children's Hospital at Great Ormond Street Hospital, which had earmarked part of the funds raised, denied the donation and stated via Twitter, "We are shocked by the behavior at the Presidents Club Charity Dinner. We would never accept donations collected in this way. " 

The GOSH Charity today reports to the Presidents Club Charitable Trust. pic.twitter.com/rTpM1Kb8Qt

? GOSH (@GreatOrmondSt) January 24, 2018

Advertising agency WPP, which had sponsored a table at the charity event, officially ended its collaboration with the men's club on the Financial Times article. And even the Dorchester Hotel should think twice in the future, whether it opens as the venue for this dinner, the doors. In any case, it was announced in a press release that it had not known anything about such allegations so far. It also emphasized its "zero tolerance" approach to harassment of guests and employees and announced that it would cooperate with relevant authorities if necessary.

The agency supposedly knew nothing ...

Caroline Dandridge, the founder of Artista (the agency that had cast the "big, slender, beautiful" hostesses), apparently considers the story humorous. She was not aware of sexual harassment at this traditional event, she told the journalist."And given the caliber of the guests, I would be astonished."

Strange that this same Caroline Dandridge gave even the evening the hostesses even the instruction, they like to contact them, if the gentlemen would be too intrusive ... You just are not in it.

The Presidents Club itself was after the report in the Financial Times, after all officially shaken. It is said that the club now wants to stop its activities and donate the assets to charitable causes.The right to disrespect for fellow human beings and misogyny can not be bought with money - not even in the men's club. 

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