Revlon's CEO has been sued for saying that he hates "dirty" Americans, thinks Jews "stick together" and believes he can "smell" black people when they walk into a room.
According to a discrimination suit filed by Revlon's former top scientist, Alan Meyers, the beauty company's boss, Lorenzo Delpani, made the ugly comments after taking over in 2013, the New York Post reported.
Delpani, a native of Italy, told Meyers that he was "shocked" there weren't more Jews at the company because the biggest shareholder is Ron Perelman, a prominent Jewish American, that he hates living among Americans, whom he called "small-minded" and "dirty," and that he can't wait to get back to a "real" country.
Meyers also claimed that Delpani made a racist comment after a meeting in South Africa, when he said he "could smell a black person when he entered a room.
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