Fox News Host Andrea Tantaros Says She Was Taken Off the Air After Making Sexual-Harassment Claims

[Eugene]

Source: New York Magazine

Fox News Host Andrea Tantaros Says She Was Taken Off the Air After Making Sexual-Harassment Claims Against Roger Ailes

By Gabriel Sherman
August 8, 2016
3:57 p.m.

Fox News’ senior executives have said they were unaware of sexual-harassment allegations against Roger Ailes before former anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a lawsuit against him in July. But those claims are now being challenged by Fox host Andrea Tantaros, who says that she complained multiple times to senior Fox executives in 2015 about Ailes’s inappropriate sexual behavior toward her. Tantaros says that, after she came forward, she was first demoted and eventually taken off the air in April 2016. Fox continues to pay her.

Through her lawyer, Judd Burstein, Tantaros says that both she and her agent told Fox executive vice-president Bill Shine, senior vice-president Suzanne Scott, and general counsel Dianne Brandi about episodes of Ailes’s alleged harassment. “She made multiple harassment and hostile-workplace complaints,” Burstein says. As far as Tantaros knows, Fox executives never investigated her complaints, Burstein says; instead, they claim, Fox sidelined her. “I believe it’s retaliatory,” says Burstein.

Fox’s attorneys dispute this. The network says Tantaros was suspended with pay because she violated company policy by not allowing Fox to vet her 2016 book, Tied Up in Knots: How Getting What They Wanted Has Made Women Miserable. Fox attorneys told Burstein the network was embarrassed by her book’s cover, which depicts Tantaros bound by ropes.

According to Tantaros’s account, Ailes began harassing her on August 12, 2014. During a meeting in Ailes’s office, Ailes allegedly asked Tantaros to do “the twirl” so he could see her figure. She refused. Then, in mid-December of that year, Ailes made another advance, Burstein says. “Ailes asked her to turn around, and then he said, ‘Come over here so I can give you a hug.’” Tantaros rebuffed the advance, Burstein says.

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[CAG]

1. There would be absolutely no recourse for these

Faux news-bots without years and years of progressives pushing for these policies, all the while having these vile people attack them mercilessly. It's amazing the only time when they appear to care is when THEY'RE the victim.

[bluestateguy]

2. While I am obviously not a fan of hers

Nobody deserves to be treated that way. I hope she sues the shit out of them and wins.

Ailes is a pig and I hope he drops dead of a coronary.

[underpants]

3. Honey, they have your replacement on at 5 am

It's a tournament. Its capitalism.

[Midnight Writer]

4. And Andrea's new book? About how feminism is ruining America!

Her book describes how she went against her father's wishes to quit the family restaurant and go to college, as his old world values did not approve of educating women.

Then she describes her rise in her career, how she advanced in the news business, how she ended with a high profile spot on Fox News. No mention of sexual harassment by Ailes.

Then she turns this Cinderella story into a diatribe against feminism.

Go figure.