A California State Senator has been accused of keeping her married male chief of staff as a sex slave and injuring his back while ‘forcing’ him to perform oral sex.
Republican California State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, 50, was hit with the accusations Thursday by former chief of staff and father-of-three Chad Condit, the 57-year-old son of former congressman Gary Condit.
Condit claims the married mother-of-six frequently demanded oral sex – including in the car which caused him to suffer a back injury, in the civil lawsuit filed in Sacramento Superior Court.
Condit claims that the relationship was one of ‘sex-based quid pro quo’ that he characterized as being punctuated by ‘unwelcome advances and sexual behaviors coupled with punishment and flexing of power.’
Alvarado-Gil was elected in 2022 and hired Condit as chief of staff. She fired him in December 2023 and vehemently denies the allegations, branding him a ‘disgruntled former employee’ who has ‘fabricated an outlandish story … to get a payday.’
Condit claims that Alvarado-Gil had a proclivity for oral sex and that she treated it as a perk of power.
California State Sen. Marie Alvarado-Gil, 50, (left) was hit with the accusations Thursday by former chief of staff and father-of-three Chad Condit (right), the 57-year-old son of former congressman Gary Condit
California State Senator Marie Alvarado Gil
‘They were driving together and they pulled over to go to the restroom,’ the lawsuit recounts of one alleged incident during a trip to Inyo County.
‘When he came back to the car, she had her pants pulled down and said, “I want you to kiss it and prove your loyalty.”
‘She had her legs spread and turned towards him exposing her vagina. Her direction was for him to submit to her demand and to orally pleasure her vagina.’
The lawsuit claims that he ‘was numbed and acted without thinking’ after months of alleged abuse by Alvarado-Gil.
On the final occasion that she demanded oral sex, Condit says he suffered a grievous injury due to the confined space of the car they were sharing.
Condit claims that he performed the act ‘in a car seat with his body having to twist and contort in the confined space of the car.’
As a result, the chief of staff suffered three herniated discs in his back and a collapsed hip, according to the suit.
He says that he began to push back against her sexual demands following the injury and that this ‘made her unhappy with him.’
Condit’s father, former Democratic Congressman Condit, has also been accused of affairs – including with missing intern Chandra Levy who was found murdered a year after her 2001 disappearance. Condit’s father was never named a suspect.
Speculation around whether the politician committed the murder, however, allegedly prompted Alvarado-Gil – who went on to fire Condit this past December – to allegedly ask her then-staffer if he ‘would be like his father,’ the suit claimed.
It also claimed the alleged inappropriate comments intensified over time, including in March 2023 when the politician allegedly asked him about his feelings on ‘throuples’ – a term that refers to a consensual relationship between three people.
Alvarado-Gil asked ‘whether (he) thought his wife would be into that,’ the suit claimed – with attorneys for Condit also writing how Alvarado-Gil would allegedly share her sexual fantasies with him and other staff members for all to hear.
State Senator Marie Alvarado-Gil, D-Jackson, at the Capitol in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, July 10, 2023
For one, the Senate District 4 representative allegedly told him ‘that she prefers short black men and old white guys like (Condit),’ and that if ‘if [Republican state Sen. Roger Niello] was younger and I was single, I would jump bones.’
By August 23, 2023, the son of the former California Rep. said he made it clear the then-Democrat’s advances were not welcome, leading to him being met with threats to his job.
He also said he began to reject Alvardo-Gil’s demands for oral sex, using his back injury as an excuse.
Among them was Alvardo-Gil allegedly issuing him a ‘bogus disciplinary letter with accusations of inappropriate behavior made by Alvarado-Gil against him’, and visiting his home to accuse him of seeing someone to his wife.
The month before, Alvarado-Gil, who suddenly switched her party affiliation from Democrat to Republican this past August, wished Condit a very public Happy Birthday, writing, ‘Thank you for all you do.’
In October, Condit underwent back surgery for his alleged injuries, the lawsuit said – before Alvarado-Gil fired him at the end of the year.
Condit claimed that prior to being fired, Alvardo-Gil threatened to hire his wife Helen, with whom he has three kids.
Alvardo-Gil, meanwhile, is married as well, with six children. In the suit, Condit claimed her boss had a ‘lifetime free pass’ to cheat on her husband, who cheated on her as well.
The California State Senate is also named in the lawsuit, as Condit claimed staffers there allowed the alleged harassment, which he said never included sexual intercourse.
Chad Condit is the son of former US Congressman Gary Condit (pictured leaving his DC apartment in 2001)
Condit’s father, former Democratic Congressman Condit, has also been accused of affairs – including with missing intern Chandra Levy (pictured) who was found murdered a year after her 2001 disappearance. Condit’s father was never named a suspect
‘The Secretary of the Senate blindly accepted Alvarado-Gil’s retaliatory actions and ratified her abuse of him,’ the lawsuit read.
Secretary of the Senate Erika Contreras said Friday in response: ‘The Senate has not been served in this matter, but we are in discussions with counsel to assess next steps.
‘The Senate takes all complaints incredibly seriously but is unable to comment on matters involving pending litigation.’
Ognian Gavrilov, an attorney for Alvardo-Gil, added: ‘A disgruntled former employee has fabricated an outlandish story, presented without evidence, to get a payday.
‘We expect that the Senator will be fully cleared of any wrongdoing of these bogus, financially motivated claims.’
Condit and Alvarado-Gil, meanwhile, have feuded publicly in the past, with the latter filing an ethics complaint with Attorney General Rob Bonta in May, requesting an investigation into how Condit pursued funds for certain infrastructure improvements.
A few months later, Alvarado-Gil made headlines for switching party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, citing frustration with the majority party’s crime policies.
She was first elected to represent her district, which is mostly Republican, in 2022. Condit was part of her campaign.