Disney Settles Donald Duck Grope Lawsuit
LatestIn 2008, a Pennsylvania woman visting Epcot with her young children and her fiancé approached an employee in a Donald Duck costume “in order to obtain an autograph.” You have to imagine that she was in a happy state of mind, filled with childlike glee, and knew it was silly — ducks can’t write — but all part of the youthful innocence Disney promises. Well. The woman claims Donald Duck “proceeded to grab” the woman’s breast and molest her, and then gesture, “making a joke, indicating he had done something wrong.” Gross. And not the first time? Allegedly, in 2004, a Disney World employee dressed as Tigger was charged with molesting a 13-year-old girl. The plaintiff in the Donald Duck case alleges the Mickey Mouse brand “has engaged in a practice of placing corporate profits over public safety while attempting to cover up, continuing, long standing similar prior incidents.”