Tinder exec suspended after sexual harassment suit

Published July 1, 2014 8:58pm ET



SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — IAC/InterActiveCorp has suspended a co-founder of its popular dating app Tinder in the wake of a lawsuit accusing him of sexually harassing a female executive of the company.

The lawsuit, filed Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, claims that Tinder’s founders engaged in “atrocious sexual harassment and sex discrimination” of the woman, Whitney Wolfe. Wolfe, also a co-founder, was the face of West Hollywood, California-based Tinder’s marketing efforts to young women, according to the suit.

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