‘Idol’ alumni in cottaging scandal

Pop star Mario Vasquez has been accused of "masturbating" in front of an American Idol employee

Pop star and former American Idol contestant Mario Vasquez faces allegations of sexual harassment from a former employee of the reality show's production company.

In a lawsuit that was filed last week to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Magdaleno Olmos, an assistant accountant to Fremantle Media, claimed that Vasquez tried to cruise him in the company lavatory.

According to the documents, which were obtained by TMZ on Monday, Vasquez, who has never publicly acknowledged his sexuality, asked Olmos "if he wanted oral sex."

Olmos said that Vasquez followed him into the lavatory, knocked on the toilet stall that Olmos was using, and looked at him through the space in the stall door. Vasquez made eye contact with Olmos, and smiled "lasciviously" as he "started to rub his genitals over his pants."

Although he resisted Vasquez’s advances, Vasquez forcefully unzipped Olmos' pants and touched his "chest and stomach underneath his shirt ".

As Olmos tried to exit the lavatory, he turned and “saw Vazquez standing in front of him with his pants down masturbating".

Olmos reported the incident to his supervisor Eric LaPointe, who then threatened Olmos with termination and called him “crazy”. Olmos was fired a few months later.

In addition to suing Vazquez, Olmos is also taking FOX Entertainment and Fremantle Media to court for wrongful termination.

Shortly after the incident, Vasquez, who had made in into the final round of the reality show, dropped out of the competition citing “family reasons”.

Quashing rumours that he had clashed with Idol producers, Vasquez told morning show "Good Day New York" that his experience on American Idol was “only positive”.