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Posted: 2018-03-29T23:19:01Z | Updated: 2018-03-30T17:35:58Z

A sixth woman has come forward to complain about sexual discrimination at Monster Energy, a male-dominated beverage company that appears to be plagued by a toxic work culture.

The woman, Karen Simmons, a 50-year-old former sales representative based in Alabama, spent nearly two years with Monster. She amassed a strong track record, even as she fended off one of her Atlanta-based managers, Ted Cook, who hit on her, made comments about her breasts, tried to get her drunk and invited her more than once for an evening nightcap in his hotel room on work trips, she told HuffPost.

Robert Duck, Simmons direct boss who works out of Monsters office in Florida, also witnessed Cooks behavior, but told her to brush it off, she said. He said Ted was harmless, a dirty old man, Simmons recalled.

Through a company spokesman, Duck said Simmons never complained. When reached by phone by HuffPost, he hung up. He did not respond to follow-up texts. Cook also did not respond to a call, text or LinkedIn message.