FOX News officials didn’t immediately return a call from the Associated Press seeking comment.
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An internal investigation turned up many other allegations of harassment involving Ailes, but none of his top deputies were implicated. Former anchor Gretchen Carlson sued Ailes in July for allegedly sabotaging her career after she rebuffed his sexual advances and complained about a work environment apparently hostile.
Tantaros also claims that she was also subject to unwanted advances by O’Reilly, one of the network’s most popular primetime hosts.
On Monday, former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros filed a lawsuit in the New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan. When she refused, the suit states, she was moved off the well-rated 5 p.m. show to a lower-rated midday show.
Luhn said before she left Fox News she was kept incommunicado at New York’s Warwick Hotel from friends and family under the watch of Ailes and his deputy, Bill Shine, who screened her emails and communications.
In her legal documents, Tantaros holds nothing back when assessing what life was like as a Fox News employee. The network has not offered any comments on Tantaros’ lawsuit, but it had previously informed that her removal had followed her decision of not letting management vet her book “Tied Up in Knots” before promoting it in the show. The suit charges O’Reilly asked her to come stay with him on Long Island where it would be “very private”, and charges he told her on more than one occasion that he could “see [her] as a wild girl” and that he believed that she had a “wild side”.
According to an excerpt shared by The Boston Globe’s Matt Viser, Tantaros alleges that Brown inappropriately touched her after appearing on Outnumbered, on or around August 18, 2015.
Fox News has claimed that Tantaros invented sexual harassment claims when in fact she was in breach of contract for publishing a book without approval.
Tantaros recoiled and told Brown to stop, the suit says.
Tantaros said when she complained to the network’s executives she was taken off the “The O’Reilly Factor”. Andrea claimed that “she also began to feel targeted by the publicity department at Fox News, specifically Irena Briganti”, the site noted.
Tantaros, who used to co-host “The Five” and vanished from the screen in April, claims that she was repeatedly told not to wear pants, so Ailes could see her legs, according to the suit.
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Brown said Tantaros claims about on air, green room interactions are false, adding his encounters were always in full view of all staff, personnel and talent.. When all is said and done, these men appear to be old enough to be Tantaros’ grandfather!
