‘Below Deck Sailing Yacht’s Gary King Accused of Sexual Assault

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Gary King is being accused of forcing himself on a feminine crew member amid manufacturing on the fourth season of Below Deck Sailing Yacht final summer time.

During an interview with Rolling Stone on Thursday, make-up artist Samantha Suarez, 27, who first labored on Below Deck‘s makeup department during the series’ tenth season, accused Gary, 35, of sexually assaulting her whereas drunk in his lodge room in Sardinia, Italy, the place he and his castmates had been staying amid filming.

“There is no limit to alcohol consumption whatsoever, which I think poses a really big problem,” Samantha informed the journal.

According to Samantha, she was accompanying a drunk Gary again to his room in July 2022 when he started “behaving erratically,” yelling off his balcony and begging her to not go away his room. Although Samantha tried to lighten the temper by joking that she was going to sit down exterior the room to verify he didn’t go away, Gary reportedly responded by asking her to get in mattress with him — although he knew she was in a relationship.

Samantha finally left however returned later with snacks and water for Gary, who allegedly answered the door in his underwear and once more begged her to remain.

“I was like, ‘I have to go — I need to go bring other people water and food,’ and he’s like, ‘No, no, please,’” Samantha recalled. “So I stepped into the room to set the case of waters down and again, he’s repeating, ‘Don’t leave,’ and I was like, ‘I have to go, I’m not staying.’”

Then, as Samantha turned to go away, she revealed, Gary “came up behind her, grabbed her, pressed her against his body and refused to let go of her” as she tried to “kick and elbow him to get him off her.”

Although she was capable of break unfastened and tried to get out of Gary’s room, he reportedly adopted her and shut the door from behind her.

“At that point, I didn’t know what was going to happen. I was freaking out,” she admitted. “It just happened so fast.”

When Samantha obtained a name from the expertise supervisor, she was capable of get to the hallway to reply.

“I’m freaking out, and he goes, ‘What’s wrong? What’s going on?’ And I’m like, ‘Just leave me alone,’” she mentioned. “[Gary] tried to come up behind me and put his arm around me. He’s in the hallway in his underwear, and it’s all weird and f*cked up, and so I’m just like, ‘Just go back in your room and don’t come out.’”

Following the incident, Samantha informed producers what occurred and famous that she now not felt snug close to him. In response, producers allegedly informed her he’d be fired if any further unhealthy conduct was reported and compelled him to sleep on the boat for the remainder of filming.

“It pretty much sucked from there on out,” Suarez mentioned. “I was just in a super depressive state.”

Looking again, Samantha mentioned she stayed in her lodge room for per week after her encounter with Gary and regarded quitting.

In response to the claims in opposition to Gary, a spokesperson for Bravo informed Page Six, “Bravo is dedicated to sustaining a protected and respectful office for solid and crew on our actuality exhibits. We require our third-party manufacturing corporations to have applicable office insurance policies and trainings in place and a transparent course of on find out how to report issues.

“The concerns Ms. Suarez raised in July 2022 were investigated at that time, and action was taken based on the findings,” they added.

In addition to Samantha’s allegations in opposition to Gary, one other crew member spoke out, telling the journal that they noticed Gary seize a feminine solid member’s butt, touching her inappropriately regardless of being informed, “No,” and seize a crew member’s genitals.

“He’s next-level scary with women,” the crew member mentioned. “It was insane. There were multiple incidents of sexual harassment in front of multiple producers after this person had been given verbal warnings multiple times.”

Below Deck Sailing Yacht season 4 concluded in July 2023.