The staffing agency that hired 130 hostesses to work at the notorious Presidents Club charity dinner last month has told the women they can disregard the confidentiality agreements they signed in order to report criminal behaviour to the police.
The hostesses were told by their agency, Artista, to sign the non-disclosure agreements on arrival at the Dorchester Hotel, where the charity dinner — which had an exclusively male guest list — has been held annually for the past 33 years.
The women were given little time to read the agreements and were not provided with a copy of the documents, raising concerns among legal professionals that the agreements were used to intimidate female staff from reporting wrongdoing.