The CEO of a New York-based metaverse company has been accused of sexually harassing a pair of African-American subordinates, including a former NFL player who claims she subjected him to strange advances and pushed him into having sex with peers. of work.

Teyo Johnson, a former Oakland Raiders tight end who also played ball as a student at Stanford University, claims that Everyrealm CEO Janine Yorio presided over a toxic work environment in which she made lewd references to the employees’ sex lives, as well as racial slurs directed at black employees, including a comment threatening to “change” Johnson if he didn’t perform on his job.

In a lawsuit filed in Manhattan federal court against Yorio and Everyrealm, whose backers include…