Posted on 10/21/2017 10:34:37 PM PDT by Zakeet
Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly secretly settled a sexual harassment allegation with a network contributor for $32 million - the largest, by far, of six such agreements that eventually toppled the outspoken commentator, according to a new report.
The New York Times said Bill O'Reilly agreed to the settlement in January with Lis Wiehl, a longtime legal analyst at Fox who had worked with O’Reilly and had once offered him legal advice.
Despite knowledge of a settlement with Wiehl, Fox renewed its contract with O'Reilly in February, paying him $25 million per year over four years, the paper said.
In a brief interview on Saturday following publication of the Times story, O'Reilly declined to discuss details of the settlement with Wiehl, citing a confidentiality agreement. But he said he agreed to settle "to protect my children from the horror" of continuing adverse publicity had Wiehl's allegations been litigated in court.
"That’s it," O'Reilly said. "I knew if I took this to court there would be three years of unrelenting headlines. That’s why I did it."
Wiehl alleged O'Reilly had repeatedly harassed her, had engaged in "a nonconsensual sexual relationship" with her, and had sent gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her, the paper said.
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Lis I think was BOR sidekick on his radio show. Isn’t she a Lawyer?
A 32 million dollar settlement, is that considered income, or is it tax exempt? Better than a salary, she keeps it all.
I say never mess with a lawyer, and a Law Professor at that.
This should slow down the Harvey Weinstein / Hollywood sexual assault, rape, and pedophile narrative. Good work NYT/WaPo.
Oh poor little thang. Cover up your boobs for one thing. FYI I am female.
It’s income.
“Non consensual” sexual relationship? What is that rape? He forced her to have an affair?
On Saturday, spokesman Mark Fabiani released a statement on behalf of O’Reilly (see below) which includes a sworn affadavit by Wiehl.
Wiehl states that the allegations made in her draft complaint were “resolved” and that “I would no longer make the allegations contained in the draft complaint.”
“I never mistreated anyone,” O’Reilly told the Times in response to their report.
He added that the attacks on him were “politically and financially motivated.”
O’Reilly said he settled this case and others because “I’m not going to sit here in a courtroom for a year and a half and let my kids get beaten up every single day of their lives by a tabloid press that would sit there, and you know it.”
She waited until she was let go of Fox to sue.
Paid out over 20 years there might be an annuity purchased. Still pretty bad though.
That type is every bit as professional as any street corner whore.
But you are right, she wasn't cheap or discreet.
BTW what does she mean a nonconsensual sexual relationship? Don't they call that rape?
The guy who waved blank pages in the air claiming freerepublic was a hate sight like DU.
FUBR
Hope you fall down a flight of stairs and break your back.
[Yep. And BOR kept persisting in his idiocy even after getting busted and humiliated AND paying out many multi-million dollar settlements. No wonder he went relatively soft on ...Weiner. They’re kin.]
Proves he’s sick. The media, Hollywood, political elites are the most deranged, corrupt idiots on the planet. A cancer on society.
[BTW what does she mean a nonconsensual sexual relationship? Don’t they call that rape?]
Sounds like “Unauthorized Operation of a Motor Vehicle” AKA Grand Theft Auto.
$32 million?! He could have hired the most high end prostitutes in the world for a fraction of that! Wealthy men seem to be chronically stupid.
And you are so right on that. Go figger.......
Let’s see the facts. Because after you read the Tantaros lawsuit you say, where was the sexual harassment?
Read the Tantaros, and Roginsky lawsuits against Ailes.
There is nothing. Not Clinton, nor Weinstein, frankly it looks like a money grab. Sexual Harassment is a legal industry.
Stupid is as stupid does... She was a Clinton defender during the Monica scandal, and “ smarter than thou” bill felt that meant she would go for anything ???
Quite Pithy Mr. O
“She waited until she was let go of Fox to sue.”
Apparently every single one of them did. Nary a complaint from any while getting paid.
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