Google’s chief legal officer David Drummond had an affair with former Google lawyer Jennifer Blakely that resulted in a baby born in 2007, Blakely writes in a post on Medium. The relationship violated Google’s policies which ban relationships between managers and their subordinates. After that, Blakely says Drummond abandoned the relationship, put her through a legal wringer for child support, and engaged in treatment that Blakely describes as “nothing short of abuse.”
In a statement to BuzzFeed News today, Drummond doesn’t deny most of Blakely’s claims. Except for one specific accusation, he simply says that “I take a very different view about what happened” and that he “won’t be getting into a public back and forth about these personal...
