{"id":543528,"date":"2023-01-25T20:14:16","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:14:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/ex-fox-news-employee-laura-luhn-sues-network-over-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-and-blackmail\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T20:14:16","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:14:16","slug":"ex-fox-news-employee-laura-luhn-sues-network-over-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-and-blackmail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ex-fox-news-employee-laura-luhn-sues-network-over-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-and-blackmail\/","title":{"rendered":"#Ex-Fox News Employee Laura Luhn Sues Network Over Roger Ailes\u2019 Sexual Harassment and Blackmail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22b47367aa3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a22b47367aa3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/ex-fox-news-employee-laura-luhn-sues-network-over-roger-ailes-sexual-harassment-and-blackmail\/#Ex-Fox_News_Employee_Laura_Luhn_Sues_Network_Over_Roger_Ailes_Sexual_Harassment_and_Blackmail\" >Ex-Fox News Employee Laura Luhn Sues Network Over Roger Ailes\u2019 Sexual Harassment and Blackmail<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Ex-Fox_News_Employee_Laura_Luhn_Sues_Network_Over_Roger_Ailes_Sexual_Harassment_and_Blackmail\"><\/span>Ex-Fox News Employee Laura Luhn Sues Network Over Roger Ailes\u2019 Sexual Harassment and Blackmail<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Former Fox <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> employee Laura Luhn is suing the network over decades of alleged abuse by late CEO Roger Ailes \u2014 including an allegation that he blackmailed her with sexually explicit videos. The suit, which also includes claims against former co-president Bill Shine and parent company 21st Century Fox, is being filed under New York\u2019s Adult Survivors Act, which temporarily lifts the statute of limitations on certain sexual misconduct claims.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In a Wednesday filing, Luhn claims Ailes subjected her to sexual abuse, discrimination, manipulation and threats spanning two decades. Ailes in 2016 stepped down from the company he founded after several women, including anchors Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly, came forward with allegations of sexual harassment and misconduct. She\u2019s suing Fox News for unlawful discrimination and negligence, and Shine for aiding and abetting the actions. Shine resigned in 2017 amid allegations that he covered up Ailes\u2019 behavior.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cRoger Ailes used his position as the head of Fox News to trap Laura W. Luhn in a decades-long cycle of sexual abuse,\u201d states the filing, which <em>The Hollywood Reporter<\/em> obtained through the court portal before an index number was assigned. \u201cTo ensure her compliance and public silence, Ailes photographed and videotaped Luhn in compromising positions \u2014 blackmail material that he explicitly described as his \u2018insurance policy\u2019 \u2014 and made clear to Luhn that any attempt to speak out or stop the abuse would result in severe personal humiliation and career ruin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Her complaint, which alleges misconduct from 1991-2011, is being filed now because the ASA, which was signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul on May 24, effectively suspends time constraints on claims involving sex offenses during a one year lookback window that opened on Nov. 24. It includes a provision that allows for claims against employers if the incident involved the workplace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Luhn says she first met Ailes at President George H.W. Bush\u2019s campaign headquarters in 1988, prior to his election. Years later, he hired her at his then-company Ailes Communications. Luhn says she was forced to give Ailes oral sex regularly, that he referred to her as his \u201csex slave\u201d and demanded she wear a black garter and stockings which he called her \u201cuniform,\u201d during a meeting in a hotel room shortly after she started working for him.  In that meeting, in which he allegedly referred to her as his \u201cwhore\u201d and \u201cspy\u201d and demanded she do whatever he tells her no matter when or where, Luhn says he video taped her and said he was going to \u201cput it in a safe-deposit box just so we understand each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Ailes brought Luhn with him when he launched Fox News, and said she viewed it as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that she took because she didn\u2019t believe \u201canother assault would h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en or be a condition of her employment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    She alleges that he demanded she <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a> from D.C., where she was based, to New York for \u201cbooking meetings\u201d and that she stay at a different hotel from the one Fox News employees typically used, which she expensed and said \u201craised eyebrows\u201d at the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cAiles left no room for doubt that he viewed these forced acts as a quid pro quo for Luhn\u2019s promotions and career advancement at Fox News,\u201d states the filing. \u201cAt one point after promoting Luhn to Manager of Booking in June 2004, Ailes demanded, \u2018Now, remember, you\u2019re Doris Day. Go put your uniform on, get over to the DoubleTree and thank me for this.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Luhn says the abuse escalated and he forced her to perform oral sex on him in his office on the second floor of Fox News in 2005, and \u201cthe most traumatic incidents of abuse happened when Ailes forced Luhn to engage in sadomasochistic sex with Ailes and another woman,\u201d which she alleges happened at least five times between 2002-2005. According to the complaint, he forced her to perform oral sex on the other woman and became violent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The complaint also details accounts of other female Fox News employees who reported misconduct, which she says were often responded to with thinly veiled threats and comments like \u201cboys will be boys.\u201d Luhn says Ailes told her he was in \u201ccomplete control of the Human Resources department\u201d and alleges that numerous executives were aware of his behavior. As the company grew worried she might come forward with her story, Luhn says Ailes monitored her email communication and insisted on seeing all outgoing messages so he could control her response. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cEventually, the years of abuse led to Luhn suffering a mental breakdown. During the breakdown\u2014of which Fox News was well aware \u2014 Ailes\u2019s hatchet man, Defendant Shine, took it upon himself to control Luhn\u2019s personal life, manage her medical care, and ensure her public silence about the sexual abuse,\u201d states the complaint.  She wrote a letter detailing the abuse at the direction of her psychiatrist \u2014 which she says she sent to the company\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> counsel without consulting a lawyer. Ultimately, they reached a settlement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    The Adult Survivors Act doesn\u2019t cover claims that had previously been settled but Luhn claims she was coerced into agreeing to the deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    \u201cLuhn lived in fear of angering Ailes and the resulting retaliation if she asked for enough money to actually compensate her for the abuse and trauma,\u201d states the complaint. \u201cLuhn accepted a settlement that amounted only to her current salary until she hit retirement age ($250,000 x 12 years). Fox News withheld over 30% of the settlement for taxes like they would for a payment of wages or a severance payment. Although this settlement was inadequate, Luhn\u2019s dire financial situation (caused by her inability to work because of the trauma of the sexual assaults) combined with her oppressive fear of the Fox News machine and Shine\u2019s continued control over her life forced her to capitulate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    She\u2019s suing Fox News and 21st Century Fox for negligence and unlawful discriminatory practices, the latter of which argues the alleged conduct by Ailes and the company\u2019s treatment of the situation was because of her sex, and Shine for aiding and abetting unlawful discriminatory practices. She\u2019s seeking compensatory and punitive damages in an amount to be determined. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Luhn first went public with her claims against Ailes in a July 2016 <em>New York Magazine<\/em> story, in which she called him a \u201cpredator\u201d and said she felt the experience was \u201cpsychological torture.\u201d She told the magazine he demanded sexual favors and was asked to \u201clure\u201d young female employees into meeting with Ailes alone. At the time of the story, Ailes\u2019 attorney Susan Estrich denied the allegations and said, \u201cIt is disturbing that she is the subject of one reporter\u2019s journalistic exploitation.\u201d Ailes died in 2017 of complications following a fall, during which he\u2019d hit his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    In April 2019, Luhn sued Fox News and CEO Suzanne Scott for defamation after the exec denied knowledge of Ailes\u2019 misconduct in an interview with the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em>. U.S. District Judge Dabney L. Friedrich dismissed the suit, finding Scott\u2019s comments \u201cwere not \u2018of and concerning\u2019 Luhn\u201d and noted that and \u201cat no point does the <em>Times<\/em> article even reference Luhn.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n    Fox News has not yet responded to a request for comment on the complaint.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n!function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\nif (f.fbq) return;\nn = f.fbq = function() {n.callMethod ? n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);};\nif (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\nn.push = n;\nn.loaded = !0;\nn.version = '2.0';\nn.queue = [];\nt = b.createElement(e);\nt.async = !0;\nt.src = v;\ns = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\ns.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n}(window, document, 'script', 'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\nfbq('init', '352999048212581');\nfbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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