Laura Ingraham Sues Media Company She Claims Owes Her Nearly $1 Million 

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Fox News host Laura Ingraham is suing Quake Media, which she alleges owes her almost $1 million.

The Daily Beast’s Confider newsletter on Monday flagged a lawsuit filed in New York last week. It alleges Quake owes Ingraham almost all of the money from an $800,000 contract she signed in 2022, as well as money stipulated in other provisions.

Beginning in 2019, Ingraham inked multiple contracts with Quake to do a podcast twice a week.

Confider reported:

Ingraham claims that her original Quake Media contract stipulated a $550,000 fee for one year—in the form of an initial $150,000 upfront and then monthly installments of $33,333. Even though the Fox News star provided the agreed-upon 94 episodes in a timely manner, she alleges, Quake never paid her final monthly fee.

Nevertheless, she signed an extension in fall 2021 under the same terms. But in her second contract, Ingraham claims, Quake Media failed to make her final four monthly payments—a shortfall of $133,336. Amazingly, she agreed to another deal in October 2022, this time for $800,000, with the monthly payments being upped to $50,000.

Ultimately, her complaint says, Ingraham only received $50,000 during this last term, and has not received a single cent from Quake Media since last December. She still delivered 80 episodes for the company this past year, with the most recent one airing in late October. Besides the $919,660 she alleges that Quake now owes her, Ingraham seeks “reasonable and actual attorneys’ fees” arising from the company’s breach of contract.

Ingraham hosted the radio program, The Laura Ingraham Show, from 2001 and 2018 before transitioning to a podcast with PodcastOne.

Formerly known as Villanova Media, Quake appears to be hemorrhaging cash after splurging on several high-profile personalities including, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, all-time hits leader Pete Rose, former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, and others.