The hush money former HP boss Mark Hurd paid to pal and contractor Jodie Fisher (seen here during a college women photo shoot published by Playboy) topped $1 million, a source said. (Playboy)
A horny Mark Hurd — who tried again and again to bed a buxom Hewlett-Packard contractor — forked over more than $1 million of his personal fortune to keep the sordid details under wraps, The Post has learned.
The size of the payout, which hadn’t been previously known, comes as Hurd lost a legal battle to keep an explosive letter detailing his advances toward the contractor, Jodie Fisher, under court seal.
“So, you’ll stay the night, right?” the randy former HP chairman and CEO begged Fisher while sitting on a love seat in her Ritz-Carlton hotel room during a 2007 business trip. “You’ll stay?”
According the letter, a shocked and horrified Fisher shot back at the married-with-kids executive, “Absolutely not. I barely know you and you are my boss.”
The awkward episode was one of several such encounters detailed in the eight-page letter, dated June 24, 2010, that Fisher’s bulldog lawyer, Gloria Allred, sent to Hurd and HP’s board.
The letter threatening legal action resulted in Hurd paying hush money to Fisher, who had posed semi-nude in Playboy during her college years and acted in several skin flicks.
Hurd had described the payout as “de minimis,” according to a Wall Street Journal report.
A person familiar with Hurd’s thinking said the disgraced CEO thought it was a fair price.
Oracle, when it hired Hurd in September 2010 as co-president after he resigned from HP, gave him a $950,000 salary and a $2 million “extraordinary” bonus.
That bonus, the source said, is in the same range as the amount he personally paid Fisher.
The explosive letter was released a day after a Delaware court ended a prolonged battle waged by Hurd to keep the letter private.
HP shareholders have been fighting to see the letter to determine if the board was justified in sacking Hurd, which caused its stock price to collapse.
The letter is reigniting the nasty he-said, she-said battle between Hurd and Fisher.
In response to the letter, sources close to Hurd lashed out at the 51-year-old blonde by leaking e-mails she sent to her horndog boss.
In the e-mails, she shows none of the anxiety or fear over losing her job that her lawyer claimed in the letter.
“You’re fun. You just are,” Fisher wrote to Hurd.
Fisher herself said, after settling with Hurd, that the eight-page letter contained “many inaccuracies.”
Fisher’s lawyer Allred declined to comment.
After Fisher in June 2010 sent the letter to Hurd and the HP board, Hurd on his own settled the salacious allegations before the board could question Fisher, sources said.
HP then conducted its own investigation, which remains under seal.
HP directors were also disturbed by Fisher’s allegations that Hurd, during the time they worked closely together, had divulged information to her that she could have used to profit from trading in HP shares.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly still investigating that claim.