Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz is embroiled in a sex-discrimination suit filed by a former staffer, Regina Weiss. In the suit, the ex-communications director takes issue with being called "Tinkerbell" by the BBP.

While he admits he called her that, he says it was only because she was "always forgetting all of her stuff everywhere she went in the building" (like fairy dust!). He then added, "Tinkerbell was not a bad character. She was a loving character."

Unsurprisingly, the suit also says Brooklyn's Borough Hall has "an old boys network mentality," and there are allegedly documents supporting this claim that female staffers were slammed for being incompetent. In addition, Weiss's predecessor Sharon Toomer says: "There's definitely a culture of favoritism, which in my impression seems to be based on gender and color. That culture is driven by the borough president himself."

Markowitz has denied any wrongdoing, and according to the Daily News his lawyer has called the allegations "baseless."