A Fordham University theater professor is a sex-obsessed “Wild Man” who came on to female colleagues and students alike — boasting he’d slept with “hundreds of women” — and once bizarrely claimed he had “masturbated with a snake,” a bombshell new lawsuit claims.
Randy theater director Matthew Maguire made sure all his colleagues knew he was in an open marriage and consistently devoted “the first 20 minutes” of each faculty meeting to a “monologue” about sex, according to the papers filed by his former underling Kris Stone.
Maguire, 63, even went so far as to produce and star in an autobiographical play he called “Wild Man,” all about his sexual escapades, and then required members of the department to attend.
Maguire also forced “attractive female students” and faculty advisers to go on dates with him, the suit alleges.
The accused horndog even announced that once his daughters entered college, he would “no longer have sex with students,” the suit says.
Stone, 44, says in the court papers that students came crying to her, saying they were “afraid of him.”
Maguire required “some students in his acting classes to perform in class acts of rape, masturbation and molestation. Mr. Maguire even directed students to perform acts of simulated anal sex
on stage,” the papers accuse.
Fed up with Maguire’s antics, Stone reported him to department chair Elizabeth Margid but nothing happened, the suit says.
Stone was not invited back to teach at Fordham the following year, despite an exemplary record during her three years as an assistant professor in the department, she claims.
She’s suing Fordham and Maguire for unspecified damages, claiming sex discrimination and sexual harassment.
A Fordham spokesman said the allegations “were found to be without merit.”
“Ms. Stone made these deliberately provocative allegations only after she was denied reappointment,” the spokesman added. “The university hired an independent investigator who concluded there was no merit to the allegations. Ms. Stone appealed and the university conducted a second investigation.”
Maguire did not return a call seeking comment.