Abby Grossberg, a former Tucker Carlson producer, has settled a pair of lawsuits against Fox News and the anchor for $12million, her attorney announced Friday.
Grossberg sued the network and Carlson earlier this year alleging that she was harassed and set up as the scapegoat for the Dominion Voting lawsuit against Fox.
She said she was fired for going public with her claims, which included that Carlson and the network enabled a toxic, misogynistic, anti-Semitic work environment.
Grossberg released a statement welcoming the fact that Fox had taken her allegations seriously.
‘While I stand by my publicly filed claims and allegations, in light of today’s settlement of $12million, pursuant to which I have now withdrawn those claims, I am heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously. I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the Network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace,’ she said.
Abby Grossberg, a former Tucker Carlson producer, has settled a pair of lawsuits against Fox News and the anchor for $12million, het attorney announced Friday
Fox News said in a statement that it was ‘pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation.’
A former Tucker Carlson Tonight producer, Justin Wells, came out against Grossberg and denied all ‘claims and allegations Tucker Carlson and his team.’
‘Nevertheless, we are glad that Fox has settled this matter and that all sides can move forward,’ Wells wrote in a tweet.
Grossberg, who had been involved in production of some of the networks broadcast, was accused, alongside other, of defaming Dominion, who sued the network.
Fox News settled with Dominion in April in a staggering $787.5million before the lawsuit was heard in court. The voting machine company. The company claimed Fox spread baseless conspiracy theories about the company ‘rigging’ the election.
‘Lies have consequences,’ Dominion lawyer Justin Nelson said after the settlement.
CEO John Poulos told Good Morning America at the time that it was important for the political system to ‘send a signal that if media companies lie … and they do so knowingly, they will be prepared to pay a very, very high price.’
The network said in a statement: ‘We are pleased to have reached a settlement of our dispute with Dominion Voting Systems. We acknowledge the Court’s rulings finding certain claims about Dominion to be false.
‘This settlement reflects Fox’s continued commitment to the highest journalistic standards. We are hopeful that our decision to resolve this dispute with Dominion amicably, instead of the acrimony of a divisive trial, allows the country to move forward from these issues.’
Grossberg said she was fired for going public with her claims, which included that Carlson and the network enabled a toxic and misogynistic work environment.
Now Dominion marches on with lawsuits against right-wing network Newsmax as well as Trump allies Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and Mike Lindell.
Meanwhile Fox is staring down the barrel of a $2.7billion lawsuit from another voting technology company, Smartmatic, over its coverage of debunked election-rigging claims. Legal experts suggested the settlement with Dominion handed Smartmatic a ‘bargaining chip.’
Referring to the Fox case, Poulos told GMA: ‘The fact is [Fox] published falsehoods about us and it wasn’t just once or twice, it wasn’t just on one day or two days, it was 20 statements over two-and-a-half months.
‘This was not the case of a media company pursuing the truth and making a mistake. They knew.’
Grossberg announced in March that she was suing the network, alleging that Carlson created a culture where ‘unprofessionalism reigned supreme, and the staff’s distaste and disdain for women infiltrated almost every workday decision.’
Grossberg, who was fired by Fox shortly after suing the network, alleged in her complaint that the network was rife with sexism, harassment, antisemitism and bullying.
In another lawsuit Grossberg filed against Fox News, which was filed before the network’s $787.5 million Dominion Defamation settlement, Grossberg alleged that Fox News lawyers had tried to make her take the blame for the network’s promotion of misinformation about the 2020 election and airing conspiracy theories about Dominion voting systems.
Grossberg worked as a senior booking producer for Maria Bartiromo before getting promoted to head of booking on Tucker Carlson Tonight.
Grossberg said she wanted to join Carlson’s show because it was a promotion from her previous position working for Maria Bartiromo, and she got a good feeling about the staff when she interviewed.
But she said she immediately came to realize Tucker Carlson enabled a culture of misogynistic and sexist behavior.
Grossberg claimed to have been overlooked at the company and denied promotions as a women.
She also noted several derogatory statement from Fox News executives, in one instance, a colleague referring to the ‘Sunday Mornings Futures’ host as a ‘crazy b**ch’ and ‘menopausal.’
She described the office she worked in as filed with photos of Nancy Pelosi in a revealing bathing suit with her cleavage on display, with her colleagues openly making offensive Jewish jokes.
Insiders have suggested that her lawsuit alleging bullying, sexism and anti-Semitism among Carlson’s senior staff coupled with his own ‘derogatory’ remarks about senior News Corp executives is what is said to have led Rupert Murdoch to fire the star host.
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