Fort Worth Jury Clears American Airlines in Flight Attendant’s Sexual-Assault Claim

A Fort Worth jury on Wednesday exonerated American Airlines of responsibility for a British celebrity chef’s sexual assault against a flight attendant in 2018.

Jurors decided after a two-week civil trial that Mark Sargeant, a London chef working with American Airlines to develop in-flight menus, assaulted Kimberly Goesling in her hotel room during a business trip to Germany. But the jury rejected Goesling’s contention that her employer encouraged Sargeant’s physical advances.