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Former producer for Fox News Abby Grossberg has settled with Fox for $12 million, according to her attorney. Grossberg filed two lawsuits with the company in two states, New York and Delaware, alleging that she was subject to bullying and sexism while she was employed there.
According to NBC News, Grossberg sued Fox News, former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, “its parent company and a number of executives this year alleging that she was harassed, retaliated against and set up to take the fall for Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against Fox News. She said she was later fired for going public with her claims.”
Fox News provided Mediaite this statement:
We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation.
Grossberg was a booking producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight and a senior producer for Maria Bartiromo. While she was employed at Fox News, Grossberg claimed that company lawyers “had tried to position her and Ms. [Maria] Bartiromo to take the blame for Fox’s repeated airing of conspiracy theories about Dominion Voting Systems.” During her
The fact that Grossberg had 90 recordings of Carlson’s desire to spin the January 6 story, recordings that were released to the public and may have played in to the decision by Fox News to settle with Dominion, made the allegations hard to ignore. Grossberg told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace:
But for example, right toward the end of my time there, when the January 6th tapes were coming out, Tucker was very set on finding an FBI person who was implanted in the crowd and spinning this conspiracy that they were ultimately the ones responsible for the Capitol attack, not Fox News, as they’re about to go into the Dominion trial, that it was really the FBI that set up this thing, not Fox telling the American people that the election was rigged and the voting machines did it. …Tucker is really intent on this and that wore on my mental health, too, because by that time I had really begun to connect the dots that the programming that we were putting on the air every night was not just generating business, but also generating hatred in the audience. And after January 6th, I had this wake-up moment that this is hurting people. People are getting angry and people
are acting out on that anger. And this is not okay. And I don’t want to be part of that.
Before the settlement, a Fox spokesperson provided this statement on Grossberg’s allegations:
FOX News engaged an independent outside counsel to immediately investigate the concerns raised by Ms. Grossberg, which were made following a critical performance review. Her allegations in connection with the Dominion case are baseless and we will continue to vigorously defend Fox against her unmeritorious legal claims, which are riddled with false allegations against the network and our employees.
This settlement is not related to the $787.5 million Dominion lawsuit that was settled in May.