Los Angeles- A former nude dancer at the Spearmint Rhino strip club said performers at the Oxnard club were forced to perform sex acts and they were punished if they refused to comply.

The 34-year-old woman filed a $1.6 million-plus Superior Court lawsuit claiming she was fired after being sexually assaulted by a manager who had asked her to engage in acts of prostitution.

The suit seeks $1.6 million in compensatory damages for workplace injury and lost wages and benefits, plus unspecified punitive damages for sexual harassment.

“If these allegations prove to be true, then this is a very serious matter,” the woman’s attorney Samuel Galici said. The plaintiff’s name wasn’t disclosed.

A Spearmint Rhino manager allegedly forced the dancer into an office, held her down and performed several unwanted sex acts with her, Galici said in the lawsuit. Fearing retaliation, the lawyer said, she never took her charges to the police.

Spearmint Rhino corporate officers kept the manager in place even after another dancer complained about sexual harassment, the suit said.

“That should have put the Spearmint Rhino on notice, and yet they kept him there,” Galici said.

Kathy Mac, president of City of Industry-based Spearmint Rhino Worldwide, said she couldn’t comment on the suit.

In the suit, the dancer said she refused the manager’s request that she perform sex acts for a friend of his in exchange for $300. She alleges that dancers who complied with such requests were given preferential treatment.