NY woman Laura Ziv sues company after boss said she looked like Susan Boyle

A MADISON AVENUE executive is suing her boss for $6 million because he said she looked like Susan Boyle

Perfume-company ad director Laura Ziv says her boss relentlessly harassed her about her looks and weight - and was especially cruel in saying she looked like the matronly Britain's Got Talent sensation, The New York Post reports.

Boyle, a stout Scot, made inteational waves with her rendition of I Dreamed a Dream from Les Misérables in 2009.

In a $6 million Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit, filed yesterday, Ziv, 45, of Princeton, alleges manager Herve Pierini unleashed the verbal assaults at the Manhattan headquarters for the scent maker Firmenich. She is suing both.

The abuse was so severe, she claims, she suffered a brain haemorrhage from the stress.

"In January 2010, Pierini taunted Ziv at a party given by an executive of the company's biggest client at her home by repeatedly referring to Ziv as 'Susan Boyle,' a Scottish singer who is often taunted in the media as being old, fat and ugly," the suit says.

Read more on the lawsuit at The New York Post