Was she to Hot for Citibank?

Was this a case of an employee being to hot for the bank or was the bank clearly discriminating against her?
Don't hate her cause she's beautiful!

Lorenzana says that this is the first time her looks have gotten her fired. Her professional efforts have received rave reviews, awards and citations from companies like the Municipal Credit Union, Metropolitan Hospital in Queens and Bank of America.

But the Citibank branch in Manhattan's Chrysler Building was different, she says. She believed that she was hired, during the height of the financial crisis, for her competency, but then one of her female colleagues let it slip that the branch had a reputation for hiring attractive females, and they knew she'd get the job the second she walked in.



Apparently, it is possible to be too sexy for your job. Debrahlee Lorenzana claims she was fired by her bosses at Citibank because they told her she was too good-looking and drew too much attention. She says other female employees got away with far more provocative clothing -- it's just the way she fills hers out.

"They were showing their cleavage, they were wearing mini skirts, and I wasn't doing any of that," she says. She claims was given a list of inappropriate clothing items that she was not to wear. It included things like turtlenecks, pencil skirts, fitted suits and 3-inch heels: "basically what every woman in New York wears to go to work," she says. But on her, her superiors allegedly said it was "too distracting."

Elizabeth Dwoskin of New York's Village Voice describes her this way: "At five-foot-six and 125 pounds, with soft eyes and flawless bronze skin... a head-turning beauty." (See more photos of Debrahlee.)

Alas, the issue of sexual discrimination will never be settled by a judge and jury. As a condition of her employment, Lorenzana signed a mandatory-arbitration clause, so an arbitrator will have to settle the suit.

In the meantime, Lorezana is gainfully employed at another bank, albeit at a lower salary. "I am working in the industry, still in banking, wearing the same clothes that I wore at Citibank and no problem," she says.