Fox News Hit With Lawsuit Alleging Sexual Misconduct by Top Talent

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Source: Hollywood Reporter

Fox News has been hit with a kitchen sink suit, replete with trigger warning, as a complaint was filed on Monday in New York federal court alleging sexual misconduct by some of its top hosts including Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

Jennifer Eckhart, a former associate producer on Fox Business Network, is a co-plaintiff in the suit. The most serious claim pertains to Eckhart's allegation that she was raped by former White House chief correspondent Ed Henry, who earlier this month was fired by Fox News as a result of the charge.

"On July 1, 2020, Fox News disclosed to the public that it had terminated Mr. Henry based on the findings of an internal investigation, and purported to take credit for acting appropriately," states the complaint. "However, nothing could be further from the truth. In reality, Fox News knew that Mr. Henry had engaged in sexual misconduct as far back as early 2017. At that time, when Fox News was conducting a company-wide investigation into issues of sexual harassment, multiple women came forward to complain that Mr. Henry had engaged in sexually inappropriate conduct towards them."

Fox News now faces a sex trafficking claim as a result of Eckhart's rape allegation.

Read more: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/fox-news-hit-lawsuit-alleging-sexual-misconduct-by-top-talent-1303804

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Here's the full complaint-TRIGGER WARNING

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6998437-Eckhart.html

[TeamPooka]

1. Enjoy your permanent vacation Tucker!

[RKP5637]

4. I'd love to see that ass gone. n/t

[FBaggins]

14. Seems like a stretch

The allegations against Henry are clearly significant... but the only thing I see that mentioned Carlson is a claim that he told her after a show that he was staying in his hotel room alone and her interpretation that "without question, Mr. Carlson was probing to see whether Ms. Areu was interested in a sexual relationship". It says that she declined to spend the night at his hotel... but doesn't even say that he asked her to do so (let alone that he threatened her). It then accuses him of retaliation in the form of only inviting her back a few times after that.

That doesn't sound like the kind of thing that gets someone with his ratings fired, even at a much better network.

[TeamPooka]

26. His bhead writer was still a racist and his advertisers are being boycotted for that too.

Tuckers got a lot of ways to get fired here.

[niyad]

27. KNR for visibility

[FailureToCommunicate]

15. I would love to see him gone for good. Just his face, and racist comments, make me ill.

[Journeyman]

19. But wait, just two weeks ago, he was Presidential material . . .

(and in a sense, still is, when compared to the present White House occupant.)

[onecaliberal]

2. Love the smell of karma in the afternoon.

[bronxiteforever]

3. Kick and recommend for visibility

[magicarpet]

5. Is the popcorn machine fired up,... well stocked,... and ready to roll ?

[pandr32]

6. Good!

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Society seems to be going through a cleansing

Wonder if we'll be able to replace Trump.

[kimbutgar]

8. Omg I've been seeing these posts on Facebook recently that a big sex scandal was coming and

There was some sex trafficking. I wonder if this is it?

[BlueIdaho]

9. But... But... But... QAnon

Assured me it was those crazy lefties that were fucking everything in sight.

[durablend]

10. Waiting for the Twittler outrage

"WITCH HUNT!!!!! THE LEFT IS LOSING AND KNOWS IT!!!!!"

[sarcasmo]

11. Carlson, Hannity and Trump all gone in the same year would be Glorious.

[BBG]

23. Add the Limbaugh forever gone and this year would be close to a net positive

Those guys suck so majorly that they give the Covid a run for the money in the shitty deal department.

[Zambero]

12. Time for Bowtie Kid and Sean Calamity to call it a day

Forget the staged fishing trips! They should jump right into a spankin' new reality show: Access Holly-Fox Hot Mic???

[Mr.Bill]

13. Wanted: Fox News Host.

Must be a complete sociopathic bigoted asshole. Journalistic skills not required.

[Dios Mio]

18. Also he must be neutered. (a stitch in time, etc.)

[marble falls]

16. Hooooooley Moooley!

[soldierant]

17. My only quibble is that,

when referring to Fox "News," the word "talent" should always be in quotation marks.

[LW1977]

20. Bill O'Reilly, Roger Ailes and these 2..

Starting to wonder why any woman would want to work there.

[greblach]

21. Tucker

I thought Tucker was just on vacation?

[Dopers_Greed]

22. There goes Carlson's presidential run

[reACTIONary]

25. +10 nt

[reACTIONary]

24. As a consequence ...

Tucker Carlson was being touted as the next Trump. Hopefully, as a consequence of this, that possibility has been greatly diminished.

[riversedge]

29. That 30-40% -or more folks do not mind having a sexual abuser at the top of the ticket