Nancy Pelosi was pictured wearing a plunging swimsuit on the walls of the office for Tucker Carlson's show on Fox News, a new lawsuit by one of the network's employees has claimed, reopening questions about a culture of misogyny at the news organization.
In two lawsuits filed on Monday in New York and Delaware, seen by the New York Times, Abby Grossberg, a producer who worked for both Carlson and host Maria Bartiromo, said she saw the pictures of the then-House speaker on her first day working in Carlson's Manhattan workspace.
The legal challenges reportedly accuse lawyers for Fox of coercing Grossberg into giving misleading testimony as part of its ongoing defamation battle with Dominion, an electronic voting company, over the network's airing of allegations of election fraud in the 2020 vote.
Fox News and its parent company, Fox Corporation are being sued for more than $1.6 billion over claims the news network amplified false claims. Smartmatic, another electronic voting company, is also suing Fox for $2.7 billion.
Grossberg was named in court documents submitted by Dominion in Delaware on February 16. According to the New York Times, her new lawsuits say that she and Bartiromo were overworked and understaffed, and that any efforts to blame the two were based in sexism at the network.
The reported allegations included Bartiromo being called a "crazy b****" and "menopausal" by superiors, Carlson's staff making jokes about Jewish people and...
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