Ex-Fox News host files lawsuit against Roger Ailes, others

But, like many well-hushed problems in a powerful organization, accusations of sexual harassment are trickling down the Fox News hierarchy well beyond Ailes. She immediately pulled back, telling Brown to ‘stop.’ Tantaros then immediately met with Shine to complain, asking him to ensure that Brown would never be booked on the show again.

Tantaros also charged that Ailes did not act alone. The suit names Fox News, Ailes, Shine, the company’s attorney Dianne Brandi, communications chief Irena Briganti and longtime programming executive Suzanne Scott, who was also promoted.

The lawsuit, filed against the network, Ailes and four other Fox News employees, alleges the inappropriate comments started at the beginning of her employment with the network but turned into a “nightmare” in 2014.

Andrea Tantaros described Fox in the lawsuit, filed Monday in NY, as a “sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult.” She said after she complained last spring about Ailes, one of his top deputies, William Shine, warned her that Ailes was a “very powerful man” and that she “needed to let this one go.”. We’ll see what happens.

According to the New York Daily News today, Tantaros thought of O’Reilly as a friend and someone who was like a mentor to her when she was seeking career guidance.

Like Gretchen Carlson before her, Tarantos claims that she was punished for complaining about sexual harassment at Fox News. Judd Burstein, Tantaros’s lawyer, said that Fox was using the book permission issue as a way to silence her. According to NY magazine earlier this month, Fox News attorneys maintain that the network suspended Tantaros with pay because she failed to vet her 2016 book, Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What They Wanted Has Made Women Miserable, with the network. Fox News said Tuesday that it can’t comment on pending litigation.

Along similar lines, Carlson says Ailes once told her that the two of them “should have had a sexual relationship”. For the record, her statement about our limited on air, green room interactions are false.

She also said some executives urged her not to wear trousers on air because Roger Ailes wanted to see her legs. Tantaros, on the other hand, says the suspension was payback for the noise she’d made within the network about sexual harassment.

In her lawsuit, Tantaros claims Ailes retaliated after she rejected his advances by taking her off from The Five and ordering the company’s media relations department turn against her, BuzzFeed News reported.

“[Ailes] may have been the primary culprit, but his actions were condoned by his most senior lieutenants, who engaged in a concerted effort to silence Tantaros by threats, humiliation and retaliation”, the lawsuit states.