Fox News has told multiple outlets it does not comment on pending litigation.
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As the New York Times reports, Tantaros has been at loggerheads with Fox for months.
Tantaros’ legal battles with Fox Corp. started last winter when the network said she had breached her employment contract by authoring a book without first receiving company clearance. Andrea Tantaros, a former co-anchor of the company’s “The Five” program, filed a 37-page lawsuit against Fox and its recently retired founder, Roger Ailes. Once her complaints were revealed to management, she was taken off the air, Tantaros says. (Numerous other women have stated that Ailes demanded female hosts wear “your skirts short and your heels high.”) The complaint also alleges that after a 2014 meeting in which Tantaros refused to comply with Ailes’ request that she turn around “so I can get a good look at you”, she was bumped to a lower-rated show.
In the suit, Tantaros alleges that top executives – including William Shine who replaced Ailes as co-president – created a hostile environment and fueled a culture of misogyny and intimidation, the Associated Press reported.
Fox has said Tantaros made up the sexual harassment allegations as a ploy in the contract dispute.
Judd Burstein, her lawyer, says during arbitration Fox News offered to pay his client an amount of money “in the seven figures” if she renounced her claims against Ailes and others, including O’Reilly. The network also didn’t like the cover, which shows her tied up in rope.
The suit does not list O’Reilly or Brown as defendants.
It’s been almost a month since FOX News CEO Roger Ailes was forced to resign after more than a dozen women accused him of sexual assault, and yet we’re still learning new details about sexism in the company.
In 2004, he settled a lawsuit filed by Andrea Mackris, a former producer on his show, who claimed the host had phone sex conversations with her and told her he fantasized about her in the shower.
Former Fox News broadcaster Gretchen Carlson also sued Ailes for sexual harassment earlier this year. Through a spokeswoman for Fox News, Ms. Briganti denied that Fox News had used fake accounts to besmirch Ms. Tantaros.
Within the last 5 minutes I learned that I was mentioned in her case against Fox. “He may have been the primary culprit, but his actions were condoned by most senior lieutenants”. He also allegedly questioned her about her colleagues’ sex lives and sexual preferences, and made demeaning, racially-fueled comments about other employees in her presence.
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