According to the document Brown did make physical contact from behind. You can’t do that today without risking this.
O’Reilly was clearly fishing and it’s not like he hasn’t had these rumors before.
One other interesting thing I noted was Rudi Bakhtiar being named. She apparently won a settlement in 2007 because of Brian Wilson harassing her.
I have no doubt, as someone who spent a lot of time on Wall Street in a similar environment in the 80’s that a lot of this did go on and a number of women did make the decision to go along but in the last 10-15 years if you haven’t learned the lessons about what not to do you are an imbecile.
They’re not named as defendants though. The legal action appears to be focused on the people who demoted her and punished her on the job for making the complaints at work. If she complained and they did absolutely nothing it might be a tougher case. But when they reduce her job responsibilities and assignments as a seeming result of her complaints, that’s where she starts to have a strong legal case. There’s a reason Fox was apparently willing to settle this for 7 figures at one point.