Word: verola
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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When Stockbroker Marina Verola, 29, agreed to pose for the March issue of Playboy both in and out of her pin-stripe suit, it was, she said, "to show that beauty and brains can go together." Her employer, the Dean Witter Reynolds office in Boca Raton, Fla., was apparently not convinced. According to Verola, she informed her employers of the modeling offer last July and was abruptly fired. Then, she claims, Dean Witter lured away her clients with unspecified "inferences and innuendoes." She and her husband Victor, 36, a broker at the same firm, say they shared 125 clients...
Last week Verola sued the Dean Witter firm for, among other things, libel, slander and interference with business relations. She is seeking a public retraction of the slurs in addition to $100,000 for lost income and, she hopes, an extra $500,000 or more in punitive damages. Says she: "I went bare in a bull market...
...Verola subsequently landed a new job with the E.F. Hutton office in Fort Lauderdale. And she has started her own bi-weekly stock tip sheet, Marina's Market Letter (cost: $195 a year), which she says has hundreds of subscribers. (She currently likes gold, Dynatech and Caesars World...
Still, she could probably use a windfall from the lawsuit. Verola lives like a movie starlet (she owns both a Corvette sports car and a Lincoln Continental), but not necessarily on a starlet's income. An E.F. Hutton executive was quoted as saying that she now has just eleven accounts and that her income at the brokerage last year did not reach the minimum wage. As for the brokerage house's opinion of Verola's asset disclosure, everybody is listening but so far Hutton is not talking...
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