Kayden Nguyen filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles alleging sexual harassment, illegal trafficking of females for sex, and wrongful termination, among other items. She claims she answered a Craiglist ad for a job at a production company, and sent her resume and a photograph. She was interviewed by Seagal's underlings and then Seagal himself, who, just before whisked her to New Orleans on a private jet, asked her one final question: Would she mind helping his wife around the house? Nguyen thought that was odd, but agreed. Then Seagal told her his wife wouldn't mind if they became lovers She was then driven to a house in Lafitte, La., or as Nguyen describes it, "in the middle of nowhere." (We used to live in southeastern Louisiana, and the middle of nowhere is a teeming urban center compared with Lafitte, deep in the swamps of Jefferson Parish.) There, she discovered that Seagal's "executive assistants" were expected to attend to Seagal's sexual needs, night and day.

The first night, Seagal requested a massage, and Nguyen discovered an another assistant, mostly nude, already thus employed, using a rather intimate technique. Seagal asked the other assistant to leave and "proceeded to treat Ms. Nguyen as his sex toy," pawing at her but telling her: "We won't do anything special tonight. I'll save that for another night." Nguyen left and complained to other staffers, but that night Seagal once again assaulted her. In the civil complaint, Nguyen says she "can and will describe in great detail Mr. Seagal's unique physiological reaction to sexual arousal." When she told Seagal that she would not service him, Seagal told her they had a "misunderstanding," but once again resumed his vigorous attentions.