A publicist sued Australia’s poshest department store and its former head for 33 million US dollars over alleged sexual misconduct that led to the disgraced chief executive’s resignation. “I have now commenced legal proceedings,” said 25-year-old Kristy Fraser-Kirk after filing documents in the federal court claiming Mark McInnes, the former chief executive of the upmarket David Jones stores, made unwelcome sexual advances and comments to her. “I am a young woman standing here today simply because I said it wasn’t OK, because I said this should never happen to me or to anyone. I just want to be treated with respect,” she told reporters outside her home. He urged her to try a dessert by suggesting it was similar to a sexual act, she alleged in the legal documents. Mark McInnes admitted behaving “in a manner unbecoming of a chief executive to a female staff member” at two functions, the company said, without giving further details. Fraser-Kirk is suing the store, McInnes and nine David Jones directors for 37 million Australian dollars (33.3 million US), claiming the company took no action to address the inappropriate behaviour. afp