Serena Williams Refused Discount Because 'Shoe Company Did Not Want African American Women To Wear Their shoes'

Bosses at luxury shoe company Gianvito Rossi have been accused of branding Serena Williams 'disgusting' and refusing to give her a celebrity discount because she's black.

Whitney Wilburn, who went to work for the shoe firm's Manhattan boutique in 2015, has filed a racial discrimination lawsuit against her former employer. 

Wilburn claims her old boss Grace Mazzilli had a 'racial animosity toward African Americans', New York Post.