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"  American Apparel&amp;#039;s board of directors announced last night that they will be suspending CEO Dov Charney with plans to permanently terminate him [via the Wall Street Journal]. The board named an interim CEO and will be searching for a replacement due to &amp;quot;an ongoing investigation [of Charney&amp;#039;s] alleged misconduct.&amp;quot;   Charney has been the subject of at least five sexual harassment lawsuits since the early 2000s, and has a reputation for propositioning female employees, exposing himself to them without their consent, and regularly calling them &amp;quot;sluts and whores.&amp;quot;   In 2011, when four former American Apparel employees filed a sexual harassment suit against Charney, the company stood by him, insisting the suit was a shakedown and the women were lying. Why they&amp;#039;ve suddenly chosen to do the right thing? Maybe to boost their flagging sales: The company&amp;#039;s net loss jumped from $37.3 to $106.3 million between 2012 and 2013.   American Apparel released a statement via co-chairman Allan Mayer: &amp;quot;We take no joy in this, but the board felt it was the right thing to do. Dov Charney created American Apparel, but the company has grown much larger than any one individual and we are confident that its greatest days are still ahead.&amp;quot;   RELATED: American Apparel Responds to Outrage Over Their Pube-tastic Mannequins   Follow Anna on Twitter.   Photo Credit: Getty "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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