The ex-lover of Gov. David Paterson, who claims she was forced out of her job at his consulting firm after their affair ended, has landed a secret settlement, Page Six has learned.
Pamela Bane, who was hired as a staffer at Paterson’s consulting firm a year and a half into their romantic relationship, has reached a settlement with Touro College in Harlem, where the former governor is a professor, sources say.
Bane claims she met Paterson at a conference of the National Federation of the Blind and they started a romantic relationship. Eighteen months into their fling, he gave her a position at his consulting firm, DAP Strategies. But she was employed as a staffer through Touro College.
But a source familiar with the couple told Page Six that the relationship between Paterson and Bane turned tumultuous when they became colleagues.
“Things started escalating [because of] pressure between the professional and the personal,” a source told Page Six. The source added the pair would argue between meetings, including one confrontation when Bane was driving Paterson and “he was yelling and screaming. She said, ‘I can’t drive this car while you are yelling at me!’ She was overwhelmed.”
Sources say Bane says she lost her $70,000-a-year job as chief of staff for the office of David Paterson and as strategic relationship manager at his consulting firm late last year, when their relationship ended. But reps for Paterson, a distinguished professor of health care and public policy at Touro, have insisted Bane was merely an assistant.
Sources said Bane was close to filing a complaint with the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the matter, but Touro offered her a settlement, the terms of which are undisclosed. Bane is still considering a bombshell sexual harassment suit against Paterson.
The ex-Gov’s rep told us: “Every week more new and outrageous allegations surface from these sources. We are not going to comment on them.” A rep for Touro said, “We do not comment on personnel matters.”