“Headshot used for getting acting/modeling gigs back when lol,” the 42-year-old wrote on Aug. 20. “And, wasn’t I a cute baby?”
“Hell yeah I’ve been a high paid ‘companion.’ You wish u could too!! Lol," he said in another tweet.
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In 2000, Flanagan filed a discrimination lawsuit against a Tallahassee television station where he worked, according to online court records.
The court records have been purged, and details of the case’s outcome were unclear.
At the time the lawsuit was filed, the Tallahassee Democrat reported that Flanagan had worked for WTWC-TV, the area’s NBC affiliate, for about a year before claiming he was fired after complaining about racist comments made by station officials.
Flanagan claimed in the lawsuit that said he and another black employee were referred to as “monkeys” and that a supervisor once told him that “blacks are lazy and do not take advantage of free money” for scholarships and economic opportunities, the newspaper reported.
He said when he cited his own background of nearly seven years in television, going back to internships at San Francisco State University, the supervisor told him he was an “exception,” the lawsuit alleged.
A Tallahassee attorney listed in court records as Flanagan’s attorney did not immediately return a call.
In an interview with the Tallahassee Democrat at the time the lawsuit was filed, Flanagan said his employer’s reaction was “more of arrogance and retaliation — they told me, ‘This is war,” and there would be no compromise.”
According to a bio posted on a LinkedIn account connected to Flanagan, the longest he worked at any TV station was 28 months.