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A female sales executive has sued Spotify for gender discrimination and defamation, alleging the company’s top execs took all-male groups to strip clubs and systemically discriminated against female employees. Hong Perez filed the suit in New York Supreme Court Tuesday, claiming the head of sales took his staff on drug-fueled “boy’s trips” to the Sundance Film Festival and that another exec took male sales staffers to strip clubs in Atlantic City. The suit also alleges the global head of sales gave better pay and equity to men than to women. A Spotify spokesperson dismissed the claims, saying: “At Spotify, we do not tolerate discrimination of any kind at any level. While we cannot comment on the specific details of a pending litigation, these claims are without merit.”