San Diego Wave FC president and former United States women’s national team coach Jill Ellis has filed a defamation lawsuit against a former Wave employee who recently accused Ellis of creating a toxic work environment.
The lawsuit, which was filed in San Diego County Court on Monday, alleges that Brittany Alvarado, the team’s former video and creative manager, made false and defamatory statements about Ellis in recent posts on her social media accounts. The lawsuit further claims that those statements were supported by a fake email, an allegation that the Wave organization made in its public denial of the accusations earlier this month.
In her social media posts July 3, Alvarado alleged that Ellis’ treatment of her and former colleagues “has been nothing short of life-altering and devastating to our mental health” and alleged that Ellis “foster[ed] an…
