A longtime Fox News personality is suing the network for the third time.
Andrea Tantaros joined Fox News as a political contributor in 2010, quickly rising to become a co-host on “The Five” and “Outnumbered.” However, she quietly disappeared from Fox's airwaves after accusing multiple personnel of sexual harassment in 2016.
The conservative network stated that they had issues with Tantaros' contract at the the time. Her lawsuits of sexual harassment were eventually dismissed.
Despite losing twice to Fox News, Tantaros is attempting to make her former employer pay up once more.
The Daily Beast has more on Tantaros' revived claims:
Andrea Tantaros has revived her longstanding, twice-dismissed claims against the network, filing a new case alleging she was subjected to sexual misconduct from multiple execs and on-air stars, forcible touching and groping, gender and sex discrimination, and gross and purposeful negligence.
Additionally, she asserts that Fox News tampered with and illegally accessed her computer—part of alleged retaliation against her for complaints about harassment by late Fox News founder Roger Ailes—and that she was wrongfully terminated for speaking up.
Adding to the bizarreness of the situation, Tantaros is representing herself in court. Just before the Nov. 23 deadline for the New York Survivors Act, she filed a summons, which was delivered to Fox News and Fox Corp on Dec. 4 and gives her more time to file a full complaint.
Like her previous lawsuits, Tantaros accuses Roger Alies, the longtime CEO of Fox News, of groping her and accuses actor Dean Cain and former Massachusetts Sen. Scott Brown (both pundits) of sexual harassment. This time, she has included former network host Geraldo Rivera to her list of alleged tormentors.
Rivera had a one-word response to Tantaros' latest accusations: “Bulls**t.”
This latest legal action from Tantaros comes after her last two lawsuits against Fox were dismissed—and after a lengthy period in which she all but disappeared from the public eye. The former star pundit was abruptly sidelined by the network in April 2016. Fox claimed it was due to her not getting company approval for her anti-feminist book, while Tantaros alleged she was yanked off the air after complaining about harassment from Ailes. That lawsuit, in which she wrote that Fox “operates like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult,” was dismissed in 2017 after a judge ruled that the claims were covered by her Fox contract's arbitration clause.
Fox has not responded to the development, which marks Tantaros' return to the public arena after years in the proverbial wilderness.
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