Scandal rocks German media giant on brink of global expansion

Axel Springer is accused by ex-employees of turning a blind eye to sexual misconduct at flagship title Bild

That Axel Springer, a media empire built on digging up stories of sex and sleaze among the rich and famous, should have turned a blind eye to sex and sleaze within its own offices will hardly have come as a shock to its readers.

A chauvinistic Wolf of Wall Street" office culture at its flagship title Bild has always been plain to see, say former staff members at the German media giant, named after its five-times-married founder who died in 1985.