Complaint details allegations that Laura Luhn was sexually harassed, threatened, discriminated against for 15 years
Fox News Network, Twenty-First Century Fox and Fox News Co-President Bill Shine will have to face an employment discrimination and sexual abuse complaint filed against former them after the New York Supreme Court rejected their motions to dismiss.
The complaint alleges a decades-long campaign of discrimination, manipulation, threats, and sexual assaults by former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes against former Fox News employee Laura Luhn.
The law firm Reid Collins & Tsai filed the case on behalf of Luhn under the 2022 New York State Adult Survivors Act (ASA) and related New York City statutes.
Judge Lyle Frank found that a settlement agreement with Fox that Luhn signed previously may not be enforceable because she may have signed the deal under duress.
“Plaintiff’s complaint is replete with factual allegations regarding duress and her inability to report the alleged sexual abuse and misconduct while it was occurring,” he said in the order. “At this stage of the litigation, the duress that is alleged to have occurred prior to the negotiation of the agreement between the parties is enough for this case to not be dismissed.”
Fox News has faced numerous charges of sexual harassment in the workplace in the past.
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