sparty wrote:
I read all 37 pages of the lawsuit. What I took away from it is
- There is no doubt that there is a culture of verbal sexual harrassment at Fox that comes from the top (Ailes) and is tolerated all the way down.
- There is no doubt that there was retaliation against Tantaros for continuing to complain about sexual harrassment.
- It's hard to believe someone would have made up so many specific instances of harrassment that include such specific details of what Ailes and others said, particularly since some of things that were said were pretty weird, like asking about the sexual orientation of specific people.
- The reason given by Fox for action taken again Tantaros, her alleged violation of the book publishing part of her contract, doesn't add up. They could have terminated her and fired her without pay over that, but they didn't. Why?
- Tantaros' lawyer puts together a long list of actions that allegedly show that Fox is "out to get her." Some of them are going to be quite easy to prove, but others are going to be hard to connect to specific individuals and therefore hard to prove.
- This is only the beginning of these lawsuits. Fox is about to be Cosby-ed.
Edit: The court filing for the lawsuit is here
https://www.scribd.com/embeds/321971941 ... fnsstEeWoFThanks for the link.
Interesting that Scott Brown and John Roberts are also named as offenders (not plaintiffs but individuals who harassed Tantaros).
If there is a paper trail of Tantaros' complaints and nothing to show that anyone acted on them then Fox is in deep trouble. As you mentioned some of it will boil down to he said-she said and difficult to prove. Her lawyer must be very confident about this because Fox was allegedly looking to settle for 7 figures and they are now gambling that they can get a lot more through a trial.