Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros filed a lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court Monday alleging that the network’s top brass retaliated against her for speaking up about sexual harassment at the hands of Ailes, according to The New York Times.
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Similar to allegations in Carlson’s lawsuit, Tantaros says she was demoted after rebuffing harassment from then-network CEO Roger Ailes. Fox News executives and Tantaros, a co-host of the 5 o’clock show The Five beginning in 2011 who went on to host Outnumbered starting in 2014, have been at odds since the network alleged she breached her contract by writing a book without the network’s approval.
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.
Before the lawsuit was filed and in response to a magazine story earlier this month detailing Ms. Tantaros’s allegations, Mr. Shine – through a Fox News representative – said Ms. Tantaros had not made any complaints about Mr. Ailes sexually harassing her.
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.
Ailes resigned in July after former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson charged in a lawsuit that she was sacked because she refused his sexual advances.
Tantaros says she was subjected to “demeaning conduct” such as having to strip in front of Fox News wardrobe personnel when she picked her on-air clothing.
She then claims the former Fox Corp.
When asked about his wife’s reaction to the allegations, Brown said: “She knows I was sexually abused as a kid and these things are pretty personal and I take those types of sexual innuendo and all that stuff pretty seriously and don’t perpetuate that kind of narrative”. The retaliation intensified, she charges, with Brandi sending a letter in April 2016 saying that Tantaros was being removed from the air. On another occasion he allegedly told her, “I bet you look good in a bikini”. She also says she complained to a Fox News executive and asked that Brown never be booked on her show again, but that request was ignored. Her suit alleges that she was repeatedly warned against wearing trousers on-air because “Roger wants to see your legs”, and that O’Reilly, who she regarded as a mentor, made unwelcome overtures.
Rupert Murdoch, who owns the parent company of Fox News, has been named in a new sexual harassment lawsuit filed by former Fox News anchor Andrea Tantaros.
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The lawsuit is the latest of the former Outnumbered co-host’s legal entanglements with Fox News.
