On Monday, Julie Roginsky, a current Fox News contributor, filed a 17-page suit in New York State Supreme Court against Mr. Ailes, Fox News and Bill Shine, the network’s co-president, asserting
that she faced retaliation for rebuffing Mr. Ailes’s sexual advances and for refusing to disparage Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host who sued Mr. Ailes last summer.
In the complaint, Ms. Roginsky stated that Mr. Ailes made sexist comments and unwanted sexual advances toward her during one-on-one meetings in his office, including requiring
that she “bend down to kiss him hello” when he sat in a low armchair and telling her that they would get into “so much trouble” if he took her “out for a drink.”
Mr. Ailes also would tell her that she should “engage in sexual relationships with ‘older, married, conservative men,’” the suit stated.
Susan R. Estrich, a lawyer for Mr. Ailes, said that he “vociferously denies her allegations.”
She called the assertions in Ms. Roginsky’s suit “hogwash” and said that the suit was a “copycat complaint.”
“Her interactions with Mr. Ailes were not even close to the fictional version she wants people to believe now,” Ms. Estrich said in a statement.
Fox News and Roger Ailes Hit With New Sexual Harassment Suit -
By EMILY STEELAPRIL 3, 2017
Nearly nine months after Roger Ailes was ousted from his position as chairman of Fox News Channel,
another woman has come forward with allegations of sexual harassment against him and the network.