Fox News contributor says Roger Ailes ‘insisted she kiss him at meetings so he could look down her dress,’ told her Kimberly Guilfoyle would ‘get on her knees for anyone’ and demoted her for refusing his sexual advances in lawsuit
Julie Roginsky filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the County of New York on Monday
The Fox News contributor states in her complaint that she was denied a promised promotion because she refused the sexual advances of Roger Ailes
Roginsky also claims in her court filing that Ailes would insist on kissing her while positioned in a manner to look down her dress at meeting
He also made sexist comments, saying Kimberly Guilfoyle would ‘get on her knees for anyone’ according to the complaint
By CHRIS SPARGO
DAILYMAIL.COM
3 April 2017
Two days after a bombshell report revealed that five female employees at Fox News received at least $13million in settlement money after accusing host Bill O’Reilly of harassment, the network has been hit with another lawsuit.
Julie Roginsky filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of the State of New York in the County of New York on Monday claiming that she was sexually harassed by former CEO Roger Ailes during her time at the network and refused a promised promotion when she turned down his sexual advances.
She began working as a contributor for the network back in 2011, and things went fine until in 2015 Ailes began asking her to meet in private where he would ask her personal questions about her love and sex life according to the complaint.
The court filing claims that Ailes would insist Roginsky kiss him when she entered the room for these meetings while he sat in his armchair, forcing her to bend down and allowing him to see down her dress.
Ailes also made sexist comments about her co-hosts on ‘The Five’ according to the complaint, which states that the former CEO once told Roginsky that Kimberly Guilfoyle would ‘get on her knees for anyone.’
She is now seeking compensatory and punitive damages in her lawsuit, which could be the first to actually play out in public due to the fact that unlike past women who have sued the network Roginsky does not have an arbitration agreement.
Nancy Erika Smith, who is representing Roginsky, said in a statement: ‘We look forward to a public trial in front of a jury in New York City.’
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