I am shocked that O'Rielly would get sucked into this after the Clinton years! However, I think you get sucked into things even when you have a feeling you will get screwed. A few years ago a business partner of mine screwed me out of 250K; I did not check on him properly because he was a young man. I did sue him and got some of it back; but he did not really have the earning power on his own to be good for much of it : (
Sorry you got hammered by a partner.
I wonder if this is a case of an older man feeling flattered by the attention from a younger woman and simply losing his mind over it and not thinking the thing through.
Happenes all the time.