• Boing Boing, Monday, August 9, 2010 1:14 PM

This weekend, the women at the center of a sex scandal -- which last week led to the ouster of HP CEO Mark Hurd -- revealed herself. Jodie Fisher, a 50-year-old former reality television contestant and soft-core porn star, most recently served as a marketing consultant at HP. (Boing Boing has posted some of her NSFW work online.) "Hurd's relationship with Fisher ... has put an unsavory end to one of the great executive runs in recent American business history," reports The New York Times. "And it has stunted a long search by HP's employees for stability and pride at the patriarch of Silicon Valley companies."

Hurd, who is married, has already settled charges of sexual harassment with Fisher for an undisclosed sum, reports The Times. HP's top executives on Sunday said the issue would have no affect on business operations. "We are not going to slow down one bit." Cathie Lesjak, chief financial officer at and interim chief executive at HP, told The Times. Analysts, however, viewed Hurd as a "stabilizing presence who galvanized the formerly chaotic company," according to the paper. As a result of his departure, however, HP's share price was down 10% on Friday.

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