BOMBSHELL LAWSUIT 07.06.16 11:11 PM ET
by Lloyd Grave
Fox News Women: Roger Ailes Asked to See My Underwear, If I Was Single, and More
In the wake of Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment suit against boss Roger Ailes, several women who once worked at Fox News tell The Daily Beast that Ailes also harassed them.
For Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes—who was slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit Wednesday by fired Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson—a very bad day seems likely to metamorphose into a much worse year.
While Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox, promptly announced an internal review of Carlson’s sensational allegations—which include her claim that Ailes suggested last September that having sex with him would help her career—Ailes vehemently denied them in a lengthy Fox News statement.
“This defamatory lawsuit is not only offensive, it is wholly without merit and will be defended vigorously,” Ailes was quoted as saying, adding the claim that Carlson is retaliating against him because her contract wasn’t renewed due to “disappointingly low ratings [that] were dragging down the afternoon lineup.”
Fox News officially declined to comment to The Daily Beast beyond the statement.
A source close to the situation, however, insisted that many of the allegations in Carlson’s complaint don’t square with reality, while her “vindictive effort to viciously harm Ailes after her contract was not renewed,” as this person put it, is suspiciously at odds with Carlson’s previous effusive praise of Ailes in various public statements and her June 2015 memoir, Getting Real, in which she called the Fox News chairman “the most accessible boss I’ve ever worked for,” “brilliant,” and “razor sharp,” adding, “we seemed to have a real connection.”
more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/06/could-fox-news-chairman-roger-ailes-become-the-next-bill-cosby.html?via=newsletter&source=DDAfternoon
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