Fox News and Roger Ailes Hit With New Sexual Harassment Suit

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. On April 3, Julie Roginsky, a current Fox News contributor, filed a 17-page suit in New York State Supreme Court against Ailes, Fox News and Bill Shine, the network’s co-president, asserting that she faced retaliation for rebuffing Ailes’s sexual advances and for refusing to disparage Gretchen Carlson, the former Fox News host who sued Ailes summer 2016.

The new suit adds to Fox News’s woes at a time when it is trying to move past the sexual harassment crisis that engulfed the network in 2016. The network recently reached a settlement valued at more than $2.5 million, according to people briefed on the agreement, with a former contributor named Tamara Holder, who said she was sexually assaulted by a senior manager in his office. Also, the United States attorney’s office in Manhattan is looking into how Fox News structures its settlements, an inquiry disclosed in a court hearing in February by the lawyer for a former Fox employee suing the company.