A California recruitment CEO forced employees to browse a sexually explicit gay massage website to hire in-home masseuses for her personal use, then demoted and publicly humiliated a worker who objected, according to a new lawsuit.
Kaynaz Farhood, a former employee at Kossoris Search Inc, filed suit against company owner Amy Kossoris and the LA-based legal recruiting firm. The papers claim Kossoris, who has operated in the legal staffing industry for over two decades, directed staff to Masseurfinder.com in May 2025 to locate male therapists willing to visit her residence.
The website describes itself as “the web’s best directory of LGBTQI-friendly massage therapists and bodyworkers in the United States.” However, the suit alleges Kossoris was not seeking standard therapeutic services. She directed the employees to find one “willing to perform specific and highly personal massage services,” the documents state.
The assignment exposed workers to graphic material they had not agreed to view. “Plaintiff and her co-workers were required to review sexualized content or otherwise inappropriate content and communicate with prospective providers about personal service details,” the papers say.
Company internet filters had blocked Masseurfinder.com, forcing Farhood to use her personal device for the search, according to the suit. The task proved fruitless for reasons beyond the employees’ control. The masseuses continually declined the requests “due to safety concerns, including those who complained of Amy’s past history of being physically and verbally aggressive,” the documents continue.
By June 2025, staff had registered formal complaints about the assignment. Management responded with a partial concession and an escalation simultaneously. Employees were told to stop using Masseurfinder.com but ordered to keep searching for an in-home male therapist for Kossoris through other channels, the suit reads. A manager then informed them they would be fired if they did not “provide multiple screened masseuses daily, advertise anonymously on several online platforms, and personally screen candidates before forwarding them to Kossoris.”
Farhood explicitly told supervisors the assignment “crossed professional boundaries” and made her “feel deeply uncomfortable,” the papers say. Rather than addressing her concerns, the company retaliated, according to the filing. She was demoted to “cold caller,” stripped of her office, and reassigned to sit in the hallway facing surveillance cameras.
The public degradation intensified from there. At one point Kossoris yelled that Farhood did not deserve an office in front of other staffers, the documents allege. Farhood ultimately resigned in September 2025.
The lawsuit seeks damages and attorney fees. It paints a stark contrast with the image Kossoris Search Inc projects online. The company website describes Amy Kossoris as “an established and internationally recognized legal recruiter who has worked with top-ranked law firms for over 20 years.” The site adds: “Amy never delegates job placements to other staff, and personally executes every placement with extreme care.”