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Bill O'Reilly out at Fox News amid sex harassment, discrimination allegations
BY DON KAPLAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Wednesday, April 19, 2017, 3:16 PM



It is O-ver for Bill O'Reilly.

Executives at Fox News Channel axed the popular host Wednesday following an avalanche of sexual harassment, abuse and racial discrimination allegations from former female co-workers.

O'Reilly, 67, who's currently on vacation in Italy, was set to return to the show on April 24.

"After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the Company and Bill O'Reilly have agreed that Bill O'Reilly will not be returning the Fox News Channel," a 21st Century Fox officials said in a statement.

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The situation was spurred by revelations in the New York Times that he and Fox News had quietly paid out $13 million in hush money to five women who had accused him of abuse and harassment.

O'Reilly was then abandoned by more than half of his advertisers.

The controversial and frequently condescending "O'Reilly Factor" host also came under fire by former Fox News guest Wendy Walsh who alleged during an early April press conference that "The O'Reilly Factor" host propositioned her at a Los Angeles hotel bar more than four years ago. Walsh said that after she refused, O'Reilly retaliated by taking an offer for a contributor job off the table.

Her charge prompted an investigation at Fox by Paul, Weiss, the same law firm that led an internal investigation last summer into sexual harassment allegations against former Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes.

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The investigation led to Ailes' resignation.

To make matters worse for O'Reilly a new accuser also came forward this week.

The African-American worker, whose desk was near O'Reilly's office at Fox News headquarters, claimed that O'Reilly referred to her as "hot chocolate" and made unwanted advances, her attorney Lisa Bloom told The Hollywood Reporter.

"He would never talk to her, not even hello, except to grunt at her like a wild boar," Bloom charged. "He would always do this when no one else was around and she was scared."

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Bloom also represents Walsh and on Twitter Tuesday vowed to press their cases O'Reilly until "he's gone."

The unidentified woman, who says the harassment occurred in 2008 while she worked at Fox, claimed she was afraid of being fired if she reported O'Reilly.

A lawyer for O'Reilly claims the latest accusations are part of "brutal campaign of character assassination."


Protesters stand outside Fox News Headquarters on Tuesday calling on the network to fire Bill O'Reilly. (ANDREW SAVULICH/NEW YORK DAILY NEWS)
On Tuesday a crowd of around 50 protesters demonstrated at Fox's New York headquarters in New York demanding O'Reilly be fired.

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The women's advocacy group UltraViolet posted posters around the Rockefeller Center building with a photo of O'Reilly and the question, "Have you also been sexually harassed by Bill?"

O'Reilly has long been a favorite of Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch but his sons, James and Lachlan Murdoch, now top executives at Fox News parent, 21st Century Fox, had been pushing to dump the talk show host.

The pair, who have been trying to steer Fox News away from its toxic workplace history, were instrumental in convincing the elder Murdoch to ditch Ailes last summer and until today had fought their father's efforts to keep O'Reilly.

The allegations that undermined O'Reilly's career at Fox News were far from the first time the talk show host came under fire.

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In 2004, the Smoking Gun website published the salacious text of a sexual harassment complaint against O'Reilly filed by Andrea Mackris, who was then an associate producer at Fox News.

That lawsuit, which was settled in 2004 for $9 million included a recording of O'Reilly trying to entice Mackris into having phone sex by saying he would rub her down with a "falafel" — although he had meant to use the word "loofah."


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O'Reilly also weathered several disturbing revelations stemming from his 2010 split from his wife Maureen McPhilmy. During the custody lawsuit, O'Reilly's daughter testified that she had seen O'Reilly choke her mother and drag her down the stairs.

In 2016, a panel of three appellate justices unanimously granted McPhilmy residential custody of the couple's two children. O'Reilly responded by suing McPhilmy for $10 million on the grounds that she had fraudulently induced him into agreeing to a consensual divorce.

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That suit claimed that O'Reilly had been led to "finance an existing extra-marital relationship."

Specifics of the case remain unclear, because the judge overseeing the lawsuit granted O'Reilly's request seal the docket.

He later was awarded a judgment against McPhilmy for $14.5 million.

O'Reilly followed up the win by suing McPhilmy's divorce lawyer, Michael Klar, for $10 million on similar grounds.

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Klar has moved to dismiss the suit and to provide evidence for his motion, asked the court to let him submit nearly 1,000 pages of sealed documents from O'Reilly's divorce, making the records publicly available.

O'Reilly's attorneys are fighting the move.

I remember when he was accused the first time.  My sister and I both said: "He did it."

CREEP. 

Have you ever seen this video clip?  It's old.
 
I absolutely cringe with embarrassment for him whenever I see it.   

My thoughts when I first saw it were:  

"DOES NOT PLAY WELL WITH OTHERS."

"RUNS WITH SCISSORS."

woah. is he an angry man. just as i read.

(04-20-2017, 12:33 PM)Charon Wrote: [ -> ]woah.  is he an angry man.  just as i read.

Karma's a bitch.
Never could stand that idiot and the way he treated his guests. If they said ANYTHING he didn't agree with, he'd cut them off and berate them. He's the king of jerks and is gettin' just what he deserves.

I'm soooo glad these women stepped up about this. Celebrities think they can do and get away with whatever they want. Same with Bill Cosby. Everyone thought he was a great man and was loved by all. Just goes to show that what we see on our screens is NOT the real person.

Time for the big spankin'

Cricket

ok, before i listen to tape above, i have always said i hated that fox news only has blondes as "news casters" and they were not able to pronounce the term of art: coup d'etat. well, i am blonde so i cannot spell it. but, rita someone would say: coop. as in chicken coop. gives blondes a bad name.

then, hannity and Alan Colmes. I have a brilliant friend. His father had WW2 pieces of metal in his head. he picked up radio. Army told him its his imagination. The brilliant friend of mine saved his father's life repeatedly, but finally found him hanging. So, my brilliant friend gave up academia then. He happened to be a janitor at wherever fox news cable is filmed. he did the nite shift i guess. But, Alan Colmes came in and looked at my brilliant friend. Whom suffered so many times in this life. Entire family gone. And, Mr. Colmes said: and i thought i was having a bad night. so, whenever i am depressed, i will think of you, cleaning toilets for a living, and always feel better right away.

omg. whom talks that way to another human being? how cruel he was.

And good reminder cricket. Bill Cosby. Quite a few i believe. It seems some men cannot act appropriately in mixed company. Perhaps they should be kept in cages unless a handler has them on a leash. Oh no. Not that. I am afraid bill o reilly might like that for a bit. sighs.

damn fine find. and then i remembered fox news on regular tv.

it starts with pig central, tmz.com. or goes to it at the end.

and, that male host was accused of rape. his father was NYC police chief at the time. or such. Greg kelly. Charges were dismissed. But i had to stop watching that show as NY put a law into effect a few yrs ago. That women can go topless. How does that help feminism i wonder? but, i guess last summer all these women were running around topless in the City. and Greg Kelly had the camera follow the women for the entire show. NO news. He acts like a nine to twelve yr old boy. I could never take another fox news anything as long as i lived after that. No fox. At all. Even got rid of firefox.

So glad karma is finally catching up to those bunch of creeps. Roger Ailes, O'Reilly who knows how many more there are.

Wow, he is one angry man! I always think that how you treat "the little people" says so much about someone. Abusing power like that is awful. IRL when I date someone for the first time, I always watch how they treat the bar staff or waitress at a restaurant. If they disrespect the staff then I don't want to know them.

Anyway, there could be an international dimension to this... Rupert Murdoch wants 100% ownership of Sky TV in the UK. It is controversial because he owns such a large slice of the media, so the UK government have to judge whether it constitutes a monopoly (in which case they would block it). Fox News and O'Riley's behaviour has not played well in the UK, so cutting him off may be strategic in more ways than one.

Yeah I noticed that same thing about sky news purchase and the EU regulators not looking favoring to O'Reilly having ongoing sexual harrassment lawsuits .
So cut him loose then the merger is maybe ok.

This is the whole episode of John Oliver's Last Week Tonight, it's worth watching for several reasons but the last segment is a compilation of clips of Bill O'Reilly's sexist bigoted remarks. He really is a horrible person.