Two women who reached sexual harassment settlements with Bill O’Reilly joined a defamation lawsuit against Mr. O’Reilly and Fox News on Wednesday, asserting that statements that he and the network made depicted them as liars, political operatives and extortionists.
The women are Andrea Mackris, a former producer on Mr. O’Reilly’s show on Fox News who sued him for sexual harassment in 2004, and Rebecca Gomez Diamond, a former host on Fox Business Network who reached a settlement with Mr. O’Reilly in 2011 after coming forward with sexual harassment allegations against him. Both women had recorded conversations with Mr. O’Reilly, and he paid both settlements, according to people briefed on the matter.
They joined a lawsuit filed earlier this month by Rachel Witlieb Bernstein, a former Fox News employee who reached a settlement with Fox News and Mr. O’Reilly in July 2002 after she repeatedly complained about his behavior to the network’s human resources department and other executives. Ms. Bernstein is also suing for breach of contract. Her allegations did not include sexual harassment.
Andrea Mackris was the one that O'Reilly tried to seduce by offering to rub a "falafel thing" all over her.
I would imagine that Fox New is probably going to want to buy them off again, but I'm really hoping hey refuse the offer.
Personally I would love to see this whole thing argued in court so we can actually get a chance to hear what a pervert O'Reilly was to these women on those recording, and of course to watch him get thoroughly humiliated again.
And you may have guessed I really do not like Bill O'Reilly.
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