Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Fox News Quietly Settled Sexual-Harassment Claims Against Bill O’Reilly


Fox News quietly settled sexual-harassment allegations lodged by a former network host against Bill O’Reilly and the network’s co-president, according to published reports.
 
Juliet Huddy, who appeared on the network from 1998 to 2012, reportedly settled for an amount in the high six figures in September, the website LawNewz.com and the New York Times said. Huddy had appeared semi-regularly on O’Reilly’s top-rated show, “The O’Reilly Factor,” for several years but said her career was derailed after she rebuffed advances by both men.

The allegations were settled several weeks after Fox News chairman and founder Roger Ailes was pushed out by parent company 21st Century Fox amid claims of widespread sexual harassment during his 20-year tenure. Ailes’s ouster was set in motion by a sexual-harassment suit filed by former host Gretchen Carlson, which Fox reportedly settled for $20 million

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Source: The Washington Post (via The Empire Report)

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