A promiscuous Daily Mail editor known to “disrespect women” was so hated among his female subordinates that he drove them to smear “poop onto the walls” of the newsroom’s restroom in protest, according to a shocking new lawsuit.
The gross demonstration against gross behavior at the UK tabloid’s New York office was revealed in a suit filed in New York Supreme Court by current Daily Mail reporter Marianne Garvey.
The veteran reporter sued the outlet for allegedly subjecting her to “relentless, severe, and pervasive gender discrimination” by editor Daniel Jones – a well-known problem in the office that higher-ups failed to do anything about, she alleged in the suit.
Garvey said she was warned about Jones – head of the tabloid’s Money & Commerce Section and Garvey’s direct supervisor – when she joined the Mail as a real estate reporter in February 2025, according to the suit.
Jones was well-known among colleagues to “disrespect women, including his female subordinates,” according to the suit.
The allegedly creepy journo was also known to “cheat on his wife in front of female employees and his subordinates” at company holiday parties, with a picture of Jones groping a woman circulating around the newsroom, the lawsuit states.
Women at the publication were so fed up with Jones’ behavior – and the tabloid’s inability to do anything about it – that they took to defecating on top of toilets and smearing feces on walls of the restroom in protest, the court doc alleges.
According to the suit, Jones’ harassment of Garvey began not long after she joined the outlet.
About a month into her position at the new job, Garvey alleged that Jones would frequently yell at her and order her to “stop talking.”
In one instance, “Jones jumped out of his chair, slammed his desk, and yelled at Plaintiff [Garvey] while only inches away from her face,” according to the suit.
The real estate reporter also said Jones would often complain about her choice of photos of realtors in her articles, persuading her to use photos of female realtors over male realtors and then to highlight “attractive” female realtors over male realtors.
“[O]nly attractive women will get clicks,” Jones told Garvey, according to the suit.
Her boss’s demands quickly became more vulgar, the lawsuit states.
“Jones made sexualized and appearance-focused requests via Slack, including sending a nude photo of a woman and asking that Plaintiff’s picture choices be “like this,” and repeatedly requesting “hotter” or “more attractive” images of women,” according to the suit.
Garvey reported Jones’s harassment to HR twice, the lawsuit states.
The first time led to the editor receiving a written warning, according to the suit.
But the second time led to further alleged harassment by managing editor Richard Ellis, she claimed in the court docs.
Garvey alleges the editor “continued to berate her and pretextually scrutinize her work” in one meeting and moved her around to three unfamiliar reporting beats in retaliation for her complaints.
Garvey – who’s worked at The Post, the Daily News, NBC, and CNN – is seeking damages from the Mail, and alleges that she’s the eleventh employee at the tabloid to be subjected to harassment and retaliation by Jones and Ellis.
“[T]he Daily Mail has conveyed a blatant yet grim message to its female employees: this is not a safe place for you and you are not welcome here,” Garvey stated in her suit.
The Mail did not respond to a request for comment by the time of publication. Jones and Ellis could not be reached for comment.
