Fox News Nearing Another Settlement
/It appears that Fox News might be nearing yet another legal settlement.
Word is that the network is close to a settlement with former Producer Abby Grossberg.
CNN reports that Grossberg worked as a Producer on shows hosted by Maria Bartiromo and Tucker Carlson.
Grossberg made a series of stunning claims against the network in a lawsuit filed in March just as Dominion Voting Systems’ historic defamation case was careening toward trial.
Among many of the bombshell allegations included in her complaint was the charge that Fox News lawyers coerced her into providing misleading testimony when she was deposed as part of Dominion’s billion-dollar lawsuit. She later accused Fox News CEO Suzanne Scott of being complicit in the alleged coercion and claimed Fox’s lawyers deleted messages from her phone.
Grossberg also made a number of eye-popping allegations about the workplace environment at Fox News, accusing the network of rampant sexism. In her lawsuit, Grossberg indicated she was passed over for a top job on Bartiromo’s show because the network preferred it be filled by a male and said Fox News executives referred to the “Sunday Mornings Futures” host as a “crazy b**ch” and “menopausal.”
Grossberg also alleged the workspace for Carlson’s show was decorated with large photos of then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi “in a plunging bathing suit revealing her cleavage,” and she described a culture at Carlson’s program in which women were subjected to crude terms and in which jokes about Jewish people were made out in the open.
Fox News previously said that Grossberg’s lawsuit was “riddled with false allegations.” The network repeatedly insisted that its lawyers always acted appropriately.
Apparently, at least some of the allegations were true, or why is Fox News paying yet another person?
A Fox News insider tells FTVLive, “It’s all about keeping her quiet.”