According to Vanity Fair, the settlement over Gretchen Carlson’s sexual harassment lawsuit against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes will likely end up in the “eight figures” range due to concerns at Fox that audio tapes of Ailes speaking to “multiple women” could become part of a public trial.
The sexual harassment allegations against former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes—the number of which seems to grow every day—have raised serious questions about whether Fox officials were aware of Ailes’ behavior toward female employees. The network has denied any knowledge among higher-ups. But according to Gabriel Sherman of New York magazine, at least three executives knew that Fox News host Andrea Tantaros had complained about Ailes’ sexually-charged comments toward her:
Roger Ailes has resigned as the chairman and CEO of Fox News, its parent company 21st Century Fox announced this afternoon. His departure comes after a protracted separation process sparked by a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson.
Fox News CEO Roger Ailes is publicly rebuking former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson just hours after her attorneys filed an eight-page sexual harassment lawsuit against him in New Jersey. In a statement sent to multiple news outlets, Ailes called Carlson’s unsettling allegations “offensive” and “defamatory”:
Rupert Murdoch is thisclose to finally cleaving his entertainment properties from the dying, scandal-ridden newspaper side of the business. Today he announced a new logo: A pair of chopsticks on a plate? Two lasers streaking across a black sky? A broken saucer?
