If you have any doubt about whether black Revlon customers are upset over alleged racist comments by CEO Lorenzo Delpani, then you need only visit the cosmetic company’s Instagram account.
Last week Delpani was hit with a lawsuit by Alan Meyer, a former top scientist for the company. The suit claims that Delpani made a number of disparaging and racist comments about Jewish and black people. Delpani is accused of saying that he “could smell a black person when he entered a room.”
Recent photos posted to the company’s Instagram account are overrun with comments — primarily from black women — urging others to #BoycottRevlon. Their latest photo, posted 2 days ago, received nearly 150 comments. That’s a noticeable spike from images posted before news
of the lawsuit broke. Unfortunately for Revlon, the overwhelming majority of those comments are from women vowing not to buy their products.
In a Revlon post featuring an African-American couple, one commenter quips “Can he smell those to from the picture?”
Another writes, “Looking for a new foundation this weekend. Until you remove that CEO you WON’T smell any of my money.”
However it seems as if Revlon is standing by their man. The company said the following in a statement last week:
Revlon’s CEO Lorenzo Delpani
Alan Meyer’s lawsuit is a completely meritless attack by a former employee
who is trying to distract from his own failed performance with false, sensational
, and offensive allegations. Our Chairman, Ronald Perelman has expressed his unequivocal support for Lorenzo Delpani in the face of these offensive allegations.
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