‘Phone Fantasy’ Owner Says Former Employees Stole Customers

A woman who runs an adult “phone fantasy” line sued two former employees this week, alleging they stole her customers for their own business and told them her “models” were fat and ugly.

In a suit filed Wednesday in Orange County Superior Court, Monic Alponte accuses Yolanda Medina and Erika Pina of giving customers their own business telephone number. Alponte, owner of Performance Communications, alleges that the two women started a similar phone line named LQM Services earlier this year in Anaheim.

Pina and Medina worked for Alponte intermittently in 1994 and 1995, according to the suit.

The two women told callers that “the models that work for Performance Communications are fat, unattractive and are lying to them about their names and other things,” the suit alleges.

According to Alponte, the women had signed a contract prior to working with her agreeing that they would not use the information she made available to them at other businesses. The employee contract also states that workers could not work for the competition or start their own businesses six months after they quit, according to the complaint.

Alponte is seeking an undisclosed amount of money for lost business and an injunction barring defendants from using information attained at Performance Communications.