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Maury's on-camera segments dealing with sex, drugs and scandalous behavior may be nothing compared to what one producer is claiming went on behind the scenes at the show.

Bianca Nardi filed a $100 million sexual harassment lawsuit Monday against host Maury Povich and two members of his syndicated talk show's team stating that she was exposed to a gross amount of inappropriate behavior in the nearly six years she has worked for them. The 28-year-old producer also named NBC Universal Television and Povich's production company, MoPo, in her suit.

According to court documents, Nardi says she was forced to watch pornographic movies with another target of her suit, Paul Faulhaber, executive producer of Maury, and that Faulhaber insisted she wear short skirts and other sexy gear around the office.

The lawsuit also claims that Nardi's assignments included wearing hidden cameras and microphones to bars to catch married men agreeing to have sex with her and allowing cameramen to take photos of her cleavage for use on the show. She alleges that she was sent out on a lewdly themed assignment that wasn't even going to be used for the show and that she was supposed to encourage interview subjects to lie about their sexual habits to make for better TV.

When she complained about the alleged circumstances to Faulhaber, he had another producer pile up Nardi's workload so that she eventually was working more than 80 hours a week, the lawsuit states. Faulhaber also allegedly told her that, if she continued to complain, her working environment would only get worse and she'd eventually be fired.

Nardi is also suing producer Donna Benner Ingber, whom she said would call her at all hours of the night while intoxicated to discuss sexually related topics.

Nardi joined the show in 2000 and was promoted twice before leaving this month on temporary medical leave, her attorney Bruce Baron said. He said that his client has been undergoing psychiatric treatment to deal with the conditions she faced at work and that she has gained weight because of all the stress.

Spokespeople for Maury and NBC Universal have denied all of the charges.

"We are aware of the allegations of harassment made by Ms. Nardi," Gary Rosen, a spokesman for the show, told reporters. "We have done a complete and thorough investigation of her allegations of harassment and we are satisfied that there is no merit to them. We stand behind our experienced and dedicated staff, fully."

"We do not believe that Ms. Nardi was a victim of unlawful sexual harassment and intend to defend this lawsuit vigorously," NBC spokeswoman Rebecca Marks said.

Maury is no stranger to court dockets.

In 2004 a New York appeals court tossed a lawsuit brought by a former Maury guest charging that the talk show was responsible for her being raped. The girl, who was 14 at the time, had said that a limo driver claiming to be associated with the Manhattan-based program attacked her after she made an appearance on the show. Lawyers for Maury maintained that this man, who was never prosecuted, was completely making up his attachment to the show because the studio's chauffeur was a woman. The court ruled 5-0 that the girl was no longer in the care of Povich or his associates when the attack took place.

Povich, 67, is perhaps best known for hosting the scandal-loving newsmagazine show A Current Affair from 1986 to 1990. In 1991 he left to helm his own talkfest, The Maury Povich Show. NBC Universal renamed the show Maury in 1998 and it's now in its eighth season.

He has been married to TV journalist Connie Chung since 1984. The couple, who also cohost Weekends with Maury and Connie on MSNBC together, have one son and Povich has two grown daughters from a previous marriage.

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riskykougra

So it took this woman 6 yrs to decide that maybe she wasnt comfortable working there or maybe felt harrassed. Im sorry but not only would I have left much, much sooner but I would have made sure I had indisputable proof of the harrassment as well.

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