Some of them never sued, they kept quiet, just like all the Cosby victims (though they were not actually physically raped, of course.). They were not after money.
The woman with the falafel story TAPED HIM saying those nasty things while playing with his vibrator over the phone with her. The recordings were part of the court evidence. Their transcripts were on the site Smoking Gun. He paid out big time.
He never stopped this harassment of women. He’s truly disgusting.
He may deny this one but there were so many others, more than one who recorded him. He’s an arrogant liar. I believe at least three of the women, and who cares if one made it up (though they probably didn’t because that is the kind of person he is).
How could you possibly know what really happened in private and which allegations are true and which are not? And how can you possibly know how many women were harassed and “kept quiet”?
The only things we know for certain are that O’Reilly had a very successful show for many years, that these women were motivated by money and that their stories were written by attorneys.
We also know that lawsuits like these are seldom settled on what the truth was but rather on the cost of fighting them and the damage from bad publicity.
We also know that no one ever accused O’Reilly of rape or physically touching or assaulting a woman. And we know that if O’Reilly did say inappropriate and unwelcome things to women they were extremely well compensated for it.
We also know O’Reilly was targeted along with other conservatives by the MSM and liberal establishment.
Everything else is just speculation.