Posted on 07/21/2016 4:46:08 PM PDT by drewh
The former Fox anchor who was dismissed by the now embattled head of Fox News is reportedly peddling a memoir dishing about her experience at the network. As if Roger Ailes doesn’t have trouble on his plate, former Fox News anchor Laurie Dhue has been shopping a tell-all about her experiences with the founder of the conservative-friendly cable network along with other Fox News personalities.
Dhue’s proposed book-length memoir, which I’m told is already attracting interest from publishers, can’t be good news for the embattled Ailes—who faces the prospect of a pile-up of sexual harassment allegations, in the wake of fired anchor Gretchen Carlson’s sensational harassment lawsuit claiming he sent her packing after she rebuffed him, even after Ailes negotiates his forced exit from the cable channel. Fox News didn’t respond to a request for comment as of this writing.
Ailes is dickering over the terms of his departure after Rupert, Lachlan, and James Murdoch—the top executives of Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox—ordered an internal review of Carlson’s allegations and those of other women at the network, conducted by the blue-chip law firm Paul, Weiss. One of his attorneys, longtime Fox News contributor Susan Estrich, told The Daily Beast that Ailes expects to speak with Rupert Murdoch when the latter arrives in New York next week.
Dhue—who worked for Fox News as a prominent anchor from 2000 until Ailes dismissed her in 2008, when she was escorted out of the building—was originally planning her book as a novel, I’m told, because of her apprehension over dishing on Ailes and others. But she decided to write a non-fiction account—which will also include her experiences as a producer and on-air personality at CNN and MSNBC, as well as her struggle with and recovery from alcoholism—after Carlson’s lawsuit and other women began to speak out about their treatment by Ailes.
“Ms. Dhue does not intend to comment in the media,” her attorney, Bruce Schaeffer, said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “She is in the process of writing a book in which she will candidly discuss her years at Fox News and her interactions and communications with Mr. Ailes and many other Fox News personalities, her involuntary departure from Fox News and her lack of success in continuing her career in the television news industry following her departure from Fox News. “She will also discuss her lengthy battle with alcoholism, her nine years of recovery and her national advocacy work in the recovery community.” Schaeffer’s statement also points out that Dhue and her attorney have “not been contacted or interviewed by Paul, Weiss, the attorneys reported to be conducting the inquiry on behalf of Fox.”
Ailes sounds like a Republican Clinton, a sexual predator of the worst order. This mess is getting bigger and bigger and its the fault of Ailes and not his victims.
Greg Jarret that hard partier! LOL
I’d like to see more hard evidence before we throw Ailes under the bus, and so would most of the Fox hosts it appears...
Just another Damned Drunk.
There was something strange about the large percentage of attractive women who always seemed to come and go, while the male personalities were regularly stable. I believe all these ladies and think Ailes was running his personal little love boat and the ones who left wouldn’t play his game. 20 women is a hell of a lot.
LOL! Yeah I’ve seen porn before but not a hound. LOL
Sad. I always liked Laurie Dhue and I wondered what happened to her. I didn’t know ANY of this about her.
That won’t happen if Ailes has his way. He wants to have secret arbitration hearings. 20 women?? He sounds as guilty as Cosby.
She was my favorite when she was on the network. Stunning beauty. Pardon me for thinking how giggly and fun she might be at a happy hour.
the girls could go after 40 million godlen parachute contract settlement in a civil suit, but why the heck is Megyn still happily working and flourishing for him the last 10 years?
At least the Fox hotties should be acclaimed for not giving into a fatso ugly married old man. Even prostitutes would be adding on triple surcharges to take him on.
If he was the one that suggested she dress up as a pirate, kudos.
I was willing to have Ms. Dhue’s children.
Sadly, she wasn’t interested.
Hard evidence? I think Ailes reached blue pill age long ago. He's just an old softie now.
I really like him and his amazing ability for selecting talent and competitiveness in a very tough business but his resignation speaks louder than words.
There was something strange about the large percentage of attractive women who always seemed to come and go, while the male personalities were regularly stable. I believe all these ladies and think Ailes was running his personal little love boat and the ones who left wouldn’t play his game. 20 women is a hell of a lot.
That is the TV biz. Women are hired to read the news based on their sex appeal. When that goes, they go. Simple really.
That’s the schmoopy real life wife of George Stephanopoulos
“Just another Damned Drunk.”
Obama says you can serve in the military. You can get married, and anyone you demand has to bake you a cake.
Actually, that's a great combo.
Years ago, there was a very hot blonde on with John Gibson. She just vanished one day. I can’t think of her name. All I remember is the nice legs and hairstyle.
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