NEW YORK, March 21 (Reuters) - A Fox News producer filed a lawsuit accusing network lawyers of pressuring her to provide misleading testimony in a lawsuit accusing Fox of promoting Donald Trump's false claims of election fraud.
The accusations by Abby Grossberg, who has been Tucker Carlson's head of booking, appeared in complaints filed on Monday night in Manhattan federal court and Delaware Superior Court.
Grossberg said Fox put her on administrative leave on Monday, effectively ending her career there.
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Fox is defending in the Delaware court against Dominion Voting Systems' $1.6 billion defamation lawsuit for airing accusations that the company's voting machines were used to rig the 2020 U.S. presidential election, where Joe Biden beat Trump.
Grossberg said Fox lawyers' coaching and intimidation prior to her September 2022 deposition left her "feeling pressured not to name names or to implicate others, in particular prominent male on-air personalities and Fox News executives."
She also said Fox exposed her and others to rampant sexism and misogyny.
Grossberg cited an alleged discussion among Carlson's staff last October over whether Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer or her Republican opponent Tudor Dixon was "hotter" and a better sex partner.
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