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The Murdochs may have ousted Fox News chief Roger Ailes, but he is still working to cover up claims of sexual harassment at the network. A few hours after Rupert, Lachlan, and James Murdoch ...
Fox News grappled with a series of embarrassing and often sordid lawsuits in the wake of the 2016 ouster of Ailes, its former chief executive who was alleged to have harassed several female ...
In 2017, Roginsky filed a lawsuit in the New York Supreme Court against Fox News, Roger Ailes, and Bill Shine, alleging sexual harassment and retaliation. She settled the suit in December 2017. [20] Roginsky claimed that Ailes offered her a permanent position on The Five if she would have sex with him, and retaliated against her when she ...
On July 6, 2016, former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes; Carlson's allegations were the impetus for more than a dozen female employees at 21st Century Fox to step forward regarding their own experiences with Ailes's behaviour. Carlson alleged that she had been fired for rebuffing Ailes's advances.
However, on December 10, 2019, McHenry filed a sexual harassment suit [21] against Fox News and Murdoch. Subsequently, McHenry claimed that she lost the phone containing text messages she says are central to her claims. [22] In July 2021, she voluntarily dismissed the lawsuit and left the Fox network, apparently as part of a legal settlement. [23]
Fox News Channel stars Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Howard Kurtz were accused of sexual harassment by a frequent on-air guest in a lawsuit filed Monday that the network called frivolous and ...
Tantaros filed formal complaints of sexual harassment against Fox News personnel. On April 25, 2016, she was pulled from the show for what Fox News said were "contract issues". [ 12 ] In August 2016, Tantaros filed a lawsuit claiming that she approached Fox News executives about Roger Ailes sexually harassing her in 2015.
FOX News parent 21st Century Fox Inc confirmed the settlement but did not announce the terms and offered Carlson a public apology. FOX settles sexual harassment lawsuit for $20M on Ailes' behalf ...