Celebrity Justice
NBA Great Allegedly Sacks Pregnant Employee

Posted Sep 6th 2006 3:44PM by TMZ Staff

Kareem Abdul-JabbarKareem Abdul-Jabbar has been sued after allegedly firing a pregnant female employee. And now, that employee's mom is on the warpath.

Diana Broda claims Kareem canned her daughter in December 2005. The suit, filed Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges Broda's daughter was pregnant at the time and was "wrongfully terminated."

In an unusual twist, the employee (Broda's daughter) is not the one suing. Instead, Diana Broda claims she worked for a law firm that represented Abdul-Jabbar. Broda says she contacted Jabbar and his company Ain Jeem and threatened to file suit when her daughter was fired. Broda says Kareem and Ain Jeem then went on the attack, contacting the law firm where she worked, which promptly fired her.

Broda says before getting the ax, she was "an able-bodied individual," but since then she has been "rendered sick, sore, lame, disabled and disordered, both internally and externally."

The suit seeks unspecified damages.

Calls to Abdul-Jabbar and his company have not been returned.

Coincidentally, TMZ caught up with Kareem last night at the Hollywood premiere of "Gridiron Gang," where the basketball legend was making a push for the Make-A-Wish foundation. Rather than a charity, it's an ex-employee's mother who is now wishing to get beaucoup bucks from the former Lakers star.




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1. Who gives a shit?

Posted at 3:53PM on Sep 6th 2006 by extremely bored

2. Kareem take that big black wond of yours and make this poor b*tch " rendered sick, sore, lame, disabled and disordered, both internally and externally."

I say give her the balck knight to shut these freaking stupied sue happy a** holes up. I bet this b*tch is from California.

Posted at 4:01PM on Sep 6th 2006 by I speak Bachi

3. He's one ugly dude. Someone should have fired his mama when she was pregnant with this fugly thing.

Posted at 4:06PM on Sep 6th 2006 by Lisa

4. Lisa, that was funny..."Fugly"!

Posted at 4:15PM on Sep 6th 2006 by Katie G

5. Another dumb American trying to sue a celebrity for more money. Tell her to get another job, a life and go focus on being a grandma.... An African American Muslim that discriminates? I highly doubt it.

Posted at 4:22PM on Sep 6th 2006 by Linda

6. I think you are all forgetting these people were fired for stupid reasons and this women has every right to file suit. If it happened to you...I will bet that you would have done the same thing..so give the poor women a break..

Posted at 5:35PM on Sep 6th 2006 by Ruby

7. How do you know why she was fired? Maybe she's incompetent. Just because a woman is pregnant doesn't mean she gets a free pass at work. And her mom was fired because she threatened to sue a person and a company that the lawfirm she worked for represented. If that's not grounds to get fired, I don't know what is.

Posted at 10:19PM on Sep 6th 2006 by Exick

8. #7, I concur.

Posted at 6:34AM on Sep 7th 2006 by sl

9. These women should just be glad they don't work for Walmart. Literally EVERYBODY AND THEIR MOMMA wants to sue somebody these days. No one wants to work for money they want it given to them. I agree with #7, we don't know why they were fired so no need to jump to conclusions. I guess we'll have to see how it plays out...if anybody even CARES after today.

Posted at 8:48AM on Sep 7th 2006 by Nakia

10. LINDA
An African American Muslim that discriminates? I highly doubt it.

Why, exactly is that hard to belive?

Posted at 9:35AM on Sep 7th 2006 by CATALINA

11. Just another, Get Rich Quick Bitch!

Posted at 12:19PM on Sep 7th 2006 by LIL

12. I agree with number 7 and 9. It's kinda stupid to make a judgement when we don't have all the information. If Judges did that we could bypass the trial.

Posted at 2:51PM on Sep 7th 2006 by Louann

13. If he fired the girl because she was pregnant, that's wrong (and yes, I think it's possible a Black Muslim might be sexist). But if the mom got fired for calling a millionaire celebrity from her work phone and pretending she had the firm behind her, they were totally right to send her stupid ass packing.

Posted at 5:16PM on Sep 7th 2006 by tom

14. There may be a good reason the pregnant woman got let go. Maybe her mom was upset because she knows her daughter will be up against the wall being pregnant and unemployed. She should not have threatened one of her employer's clients though. Now, both of them are going to be broke. If I was Kareem, I wouldn't give either one of them 35 cents to get cheese on a single......

Posted at 7:06PM on Sep 7th 2006 by Anton