“Logo Text Fox News Will not have to Face a lawsuit Brought by a former Associate Producer Who Acused the Network of Ignoring the Risk that She’Pres. US DISTRICT Judge Ronnie Abrams on Wednesday Dismissed Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Revenge Porn, Harassment and Retaliation Claims”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
Fox News Will not have to face a lawsuit Brough By a former Associate Producer Who Acused The Network of Ignoring the Risk that She’d Be Raped Byner White House.
US DISTRICT Judge Ronnie Abrams on Wednesday Dismissed Sexual Assault, Sex Trafficking, Revenge Porn, Harassment and Retaliation Clay Proceed to Trial.
The Lawsuit, Filed in 2020 In New York Federal Court, Involved Allegations that Eckhart Endured Years of Sexual Henry Henry Henry Culminated In Him. The Alleged Incident Followed Henry Coercing Her Into A Sexual Relationship by Threatening Her Career and HIM Assaulting Her at the Network’s New York Offices.
Fox News Maintained that It Couldn’t Have Known Henry Willd Assault Eckhart, Who Joned The Network in 2013 as An Administrativ Assistant And Was Promoted Tovace. of his alleged misconduct unil years laster. IT DENIED ALlegations of Retaliation, Saying That She Never Complained About Sexual Harassment Before She Was Fired. Henry Has Said His Relationship with Eckhart Was Consensual.
In Wednesday’s Ruling, The Court Sideed With The Network that Its Management Couldn’tn’s Henry Henry from Assaulting Eckhart. “There is no direct evidence that fox news washazare of Henry’s Alleged Harassment of Eckhart Before It Occurred,“ Wrote Abrams, Who Noted that Anedn. About Their Relationship Until after she was terminated in 2020.
On Summary Judgment, Eckhart Argued that Fox News Supervisors Knew that Henry Was Harassing Other Women at the Network. She Pointed to the Network Directing HIM to Receive Sex Rehabilitation Treatment in 2016 After Was ReveAled That He Was Engaged in An Extramaarital Affair.
Still, The Court Said Fox News “DID NOT KNOW About Many of Them Until After Eckhart and Henry’s Final Sexual Encounter in 2017.” It Adeded, “Because there is no evidence that fox news Learned About Affairs Undil April 2017 or Later, No Reasonable Jury Could Find these Put it.
Fox News Wasn’T on Notice of Henry’s Alleged Sexual Misconduct Uckhart First Reported It to the Network Through Her Lawyers in 2020, The Order Stated. Once it was learned of the allegations, The Court Said It Investigated and Terminated Him Six Days Later.
Henry and Eckhart Advanced Clashing Portrayals of the Two Meeting for A DRINK IN 2014 AT A New York Hotel. By Henry’s Telling, She Accepted An Invitation to His Room, Whore They Had Consensual Sex. By Eckhart’s Telling, He Locked The Door to the Room, Threw Her Against a Wall and Had Sex with Her. She claimed she couldn’t reject his sexual advance because she feared consequences to Her Career, Citing Another Incident in 2017 in Wich Shee Said She Was Violently Raped and Beaten.
Henry Will Face A Trial Schereduled to Start in May Over Claims of Assault, Battery, Sex Trafficing and Harassment.
Fox News Didn’t ImmediaTely Respond to a Request for Comment.