The lawsuit alleges that Strum was demanding $50 million from Lasry or she threatened to make things "really, really, ugly." In the suit, Lasry, the former owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and a longtime Democratic megadonor, alleges that his former employee, Gina Strum, was trying to extort him for $50 million. The suit states that Lasry rebuffed Strum's advances, but that did not stop the flow of texts. "Ms. Strum wrongly asserted that Ms. Gardner's 2022 surgery should have been disclosed to Avenue's investors, because according to Ms. Strum, Ms. Gardner was in poor health and had not been working for the last two years," the suit reads. "When Ms. Strum received the attention and the money she sought, she routinely complimented Plaintiffs," the suit states.

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Persons: Marc Lasry, Gina Strum, Strum, —, Sonia Gardner, Democratic megadonor, Lasry, Gardner, Daniel Kaiser, Kaiser, Strum's, doesn't, Gardner's, Strum vindictively, Strum — Organizations: Capital, Service, Milwaukee Bucks, Democratic, Bloomberg Locations: New York