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Fox News Quietly Paid Kimberly Guilfoyle Accuser Over Sexual
Misconduct Claims: Report
Fox News reportedly agreed to quietly pay upward of $4 million
to a woman who accused former network host Kimberly Guilfoyle of sexual
harassment.
A young woman, who was one of Guilfoyle’s assistants at Fox
News, sent company executives a 42-page confidential draft complaint in 2018
that accused Guilfoyle of repeated sexual harassment, according
to a New Yorker article published
Thursday.
Jane Mayer, who wrote the article, reported
in March 2019 that
Fox News secretly paid an undisclosed sum to the assistant, who no longer works
at the network. Mayer now says that Fox agreed to pay the woman about $4
million to avoid going to trial over a lawsuit.
In a 42-page complaint, a former assistant at Fox accused
Kimberly Guilfoyle, who is now one of the Trump campaign’s top fund-raising
officials, of sexual harassment—and of attempting to buy her silence @JaneMayerNYerhttps://t.co/jAhoLnVXkB
— Emma Kinery (@EmmaKinery) October 1, 2020
Fox News did not immediately respond to HuffPost’s request for
comment on The New Yorker report.
Guilfoyle was a prosecutor in Los Angeles and San Francisco
before becoming co-host of the political talk show “The Five” on Fox News. The
network forced her out mid-contract in
July 2018, and she now serves as President
Donald Trump’s campaign finance chair while
dating Donald Trump Jr.
HuffPost first
reported in 2018 that
Guilfoyle’s departure from the network was not voluntary and that sources said
she was terminated following an internal investigation into allegations of
inappropriate behavior, such as sexual misconduct. Six sources said that
Guilfoyle would show colleagues personal photographs of male genitalia (and
identify whose genitals they were), regularly discussed sexual matters at work
and would be emotionally abusive toward hair and makeup artists and support
staff.
Guilfoyle has maintained that her decision to move from television
news to a political campaign was voluntary and that the allegations about her
behavior were false. She
later threatened HuffPost and
other media companies with potential legal action following reports about the
sexual harassment claims.
Mayer’s
article detailing the former assistant’s draft complaint corroborates
HuffPost’s earlier reporting, including that the woman was frequently subjected
to degrading, abusive and sexually inappropriate behaviors, such as being shown
lewd photographs of men with whom Guilfoyle had sexual relations.
Other instances Mayer cites from the draft complaint are that
the assistant was required to work at Guilfoyle’s New York apartment while the
network host walked around naked, was forced to listen to Guilfoyle speak
incessantly about her sex life, was ordered to give Guilfoyle a thigh massage
and was told to submit to a Fox employee’s sexual demands.
The Trump surrogate declined to be interviewed by Mayer but told
The New Yorker that she has “never engaged in any workplace misconduct of any
kind.” The former assistant has not been publicly identified, and the draft
complaint, which was never filed in court, is allegedly covered by a
nondisclosure agreement.
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Kimberly Guilfoyle Reportedly Offered Hush Money to Sexual-Harassment Accuser
A little over a month since her prominent appearance at the Republican National Convention, a report from The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer provides new information on how Kimberly Guilfoyle left her prior position at Fox News in the summer of 2018.
It was previously reported that the conservative attorney, who is now the Trump campaign’s finance chair and Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, left her position as co-host of The Five during a sexual-misconduct investigation. But on Thursday, Mayer published the first details of the accusations against Guilfoyle, which were made by a former assistant who accused her boss of repeated sexual harassment:
The woman was hired in 2015, just out of college, to work as an assistant for Guilfoyle and another former Fox host, Eric Bolling. According to a dozen well-informed sources familiar with her complaints, the assistant alleged that Guilfoyle, her direct supervisor, subjected her frequently to degrading, abusive, and sexually inappropriate behavior; among other things, she said that she was frequently required to work at Guilfoyle’s New York apartment while the Fox host displayed herself naked, and was shown photographs of the genitalia of men with whom Guilfoyle had had sexual relations. The draft complaint also alleged that Guilfoyle spoke incessantly and luridly about her sex life, and on one occasion demanded a massage of her bare thighs; other times, she said, Guilfoyle told her to submit to a Fox employee’s demands for sexual favors, encouraged her to sleep with wealthy and powerful men, asked her to critique her naked body, demanded that she share a room with her on business trips, required her to sleep over at her apartment, and exposed herself to her, making her feel deeply uncomfortable.
The details come from a 42-page complaint drafted by the assistant’s attorneys and sent to Fox News executives. The complaint was never filed in court, because executives settled her claims for more than $4 million, according to Mayer. One of the most explosive claims was that Guilfoyle wanted the assistant to lie to a law firm investigating allegations of sexual harassment involving the assistant’s other boss, Eric Bolling:
In exchange for demonstrating what Guilfoyle called loyalty, she would work out a payment to take care of her—possibly, she said, with funds from Bolling. The assistant alleged that Guilfoyle mentioned sums as large as a million dollars, and also other inducements, including a private-plane ride to Rome, a percentage of Guilfoyle’s future speaking fees, and an on-air reporting opportunity.
While Guilfoyle has publicly denied any wrongdoing, The New Yorker provided new, corroborating evidence regarding Guilfoyle’s alleged behavior:
One current and one former Fox employee confirmed the assistant’s allegation that Guilfoyle had often shared lewd images, noting that she had shown photographs of male genitalia to them, too—some of romantic partners, others of fans. Another former employee described Guilfoyle showing pornographic videos in the office. Guilfoyle’s graphic sexual talk so upset hair-and-makeup artists at Fox that they lodged an internal complaint, triggering an investigation by the company.
The House that Roger Ailes built has been plagued by sexual-misconduct allegations and settlements. While in recent years, major Fox News names like Bill O’Reilly and Ailes himself have left the network in the wake of alleged sexual-misconduct scandals, just this year former host Ed Henry was accused in a lawsuit of rape, while hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity were accused of sexual misconduct.
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