Nothing relating to an ongoing sexual harassment probe was immediately apparent in hundreds of emails unveiled tonight betweeen Attorney General Marc Dann and his scheduler, Jessica Utovich.

After initially denying a Dispatch request for the communications, Dann's office released more than 2,300 emails, mostly from last fall. Spokesman Ted Hart said 19 were withheld: 11 related to funerals, four about medical appointments and four solely about Dann's children. Dozens of others were edited to remove private phone numbers and other information. And many of the emails were released separately, meaning the responses are difficult to ascertain because they're in different files.

Utovich visited a Dublin-area condo occupied by Dann numerous times, including last Sept. 10, a key date in an ongoing sexual harassment probe stemming from the complaints of two 26-year-old women in Dann's office. One of the women taken to the condo by her boss and Dann's housemate, Anthony Gutierrez, laid down after drinking heavily; she woke up a few hours later to find her pants unbuttoned and Gutierrez in bed next to her wearing only underwear.

That incident was not mentioned in the emails, although early the next afternoon Utovich wrote to Dann with the following message line: "Don't leave without - call me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Gutierrez and the third occupant of the condo, communications director Leo Jennings III, have been suspended with pay at least until the internal investigation is finished. Dann moved out of the condo near the end of last year.

While most of the emails, even several sent at night and on weekends, dealt with office matters, a few seemed to venture beyond routine communiqués involving a statewide elected official who is Ohio's top law enforcement officer.

"You are so fricking mean," Utovich told Dann last September.

He replies: "And you are little mary sunshine."

Her rejoinder: "I at least care."

Another time she called him a "dork." In October she told him, "I hate you" adding moments later "FU."

Some of the emails are enigmatic, such as a Sept. 5 exchange that only records Utovich's comments:

"It's (because) she has better hair, isn't it?" Three minutes later she says, "You can't have two. I feel ditched all over again. It's the hair."

Earlier in the day, Dann had told her, "I like your hair."

She replies, "It's too red."

There are many e-mails from Utovich to Dann in which she asks Dann to call her, including on her cell phone.

"Can you go to the bathroom or something and call me?" Utovich wrote to Dann on Sept. 4 with the subject line, "favor."

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