Very Shocking! ; ‘Hot Yoga’ Guru Bikram Choudhury to Pay $7.4M in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

Bob Riha Jr—Getty Images Indian Yoga guru Bikram Choudhury as he instructs his yoga class in heated room, Beverly Hills, California, Feb. 2, 2000.

Six other women have filed sexual assault lawsuits against 69-year-old Bikram Choudhury

In Los Angeles, A high-heat brand  yoga expect  has been ordered to pay well over $7 million to a former legal adviser who claimed he sexually harassed her.

A  jury in Los Angeles court ordered Bikram yoga founder, Bikram Choudhury to pay $6.5 million in punitive damages Tuesday on top of $924,000 in compensatory he was ordered to pay in the same case a day earlier.

 Minakshi “Miki” Jafa-Bodden, the woman at the center of this issue claimed Choudhury sexually harassed her and wrongfully fired her for investigating another woman’s rape allegation.  After the verdict Choudhury’s attorney, Robert Tafoya, gave no comment.

Jafa-Bodden, as head of legal and international affairs at Choudhury’s Los Angeles yoga school from spring 2011 until March 2013,  got fired for refusing to cover up an investigation into a rape allegation. According to her attorney, Mark Quigley, Jafa-Bodden faced fatal retaliation and intimidation when she refused to stay silent about witnessing illegal behavior, moreover Choudhury sexually harassed, inappropriately touched her and tried to coerced her to stay with him in a hotel siute.

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