O'Reilly Settled New Harassment Claims, Then Fox Renewed His Contract
Source: NYT
Last January, six months after Fox News ousted its chairman amid a sexual harassment scandal, the networks top-rated host at the time, Bill OReilly, struck a $32 million agreement with a longtime network analyst to settle new sexual harassment allegations, according to two people briefed on the matter an extraordinarily large amount for such cases.
Although the deal has not been previously made public, the networks parent company, 21st Century Fox, acknowledges that it was aware of the womans complaints about Mr. OReilly. They included allegations of repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her, according to the people briefed on the matter.
It was at least the sixth agreement and by far the largest made by either Mr. OReilly or the company to settle harassment allegations against him. Despite that record, 21st Century Fox began contract negotiations with Mr. OReilly, and in February granted him a four-year extension that paid $25 million a year.
Interviews with people familiar with the settlement, and documents obtained by The New York Times, show how the company tried and ultimately failed to contain the second wave of a sexual harassment crisis that initially burst into public view the previous summer and cost the Fox News chairman, Roger Ailes, and eventually Mr. OReilly, their jobs.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/21/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment.html
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