Well, as little as I enjoy O'Reilly, it appears he is not afraid of whatever allegations may exist...I would have to suspect that they are likely bogus.
Posted on 10/13/2004 7:55:52 AM PDT by jimbo123
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 13, 2004--Bill O'Reilly, host of the FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor, filed suit today in Nassau County Supreme Court against a Manhattan attorney, his law firm, Morelli & Associates, and a FOX News employee for attempting to extort $60 million dollars from Mr. O'Reilly.
Benedict P. Morelli, a Manhattan attorney, and the FOX News employee, threatened to sue Mr. O'Reilly and FOX News claiming Mr. O'Reilly allegedly engaged in offensive conversations with the employee. The employee worked for Mr. O'Reilly for four years before moving to Cable News Network (CNN) earlier this year. After just five months at CNN, the employee asked Mr. O'Reilly to return to Fox News, and did so in July of this year.
The complaint filed by Mr. O'Reilly alleges that Mr. Morelli and the employee engaged in an extortion attempt by threatening to file a well-publicized lawsuit and demanding an exorbitant financial settlement for hush money. The complaint describes Mr. Morelli's demand that Mr. O'Reilly pay the pair "nothing less than $60 million." In addition, Mr. Morelli claimed he "wanted to punish not only O'Reilly, but FOX News."
Mr. O'Reilly said, "As a public figure, I have received many threats. But enough is enough...the threats stop now. I will not give in to extortion." While Mr. O'Reilly is seeking unspecified damages, he stated that he would donate "one hundred percent" of the monetary damages to charity.
In addition to the extortion lawsuit, Mr. O'Reilly has also sued Mr. Morelli, his law firm, and the employee for intentional infliction of emotional distress and wrongful interference with contractual relations, alleging that their accusations threatened to impair his reputation and standing with his employers and the public.
Why aren't there any details about the employee being sued?
Mr. O'Reilly "engages in offensive conversations" on a nightly basis. I've always detested this creep.
How scandalous!!!
It's hard to feel sorry for Bill.
Tortious interference, eh? This should be interesting.
O'Reilly made a pass at him?
I'd put money that O'Reilly's victim was a young lady. We all suspected O'Reilly was a closet demoncrat and now we know.
I hope for his sake he kept it pithy.
souds like a concentrated effort to "Take out" a conservative talk show host ala Rush Limbaugh.
I guess Drudge shouldn't be calling it a "World Exclusive" on his site then...
He's gonna blackmail
O'Reilly for being nice
and taking him back?!
Well, as little as I enjoy O'Reilly, it appears he is not afraid of whatever allegations may exist...I would have to suspect that they are likely bogus.
I wonder if Bill will talk about the specifics of the "offensive conversations". Note, the article doesn't say criminal so probably not sexual harassment. On the other hand, doesn't seem like Morelli would have much of a case if the two were just arguing about politics.
You've mistaken Bill O'Reilly for a conservative
There has got to be a gay lover somewhere in there.... I hate Bill o'reilly
I think its that woman that use to be there on Fridays that would tell all the offensive remarks he had made that week. I did see her on another station.
Too late.
Does anyone remember the young black woman O'R used to have on his show a couple of times a week?.....I remember she left Fox for CNN..
O'Blowhard is as offensive as anyone on TV. I wonder if Boortz has heard about this yet, the two of them hate each other.
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