for me.” During a June 2004 radio segment, O’Reilly said to Wiehl, who co-hosted his show, “I don't expect anything from you, Lis. O'Reilly to Wiehl: “You're here because you're eye candy. O’Reilly objectified and harassed Wiehl on his radio show for years O’Reilly subsequently credited the Fox appearance with boosting his book sales. whether through an on-screen graphic or a promotional commercial. Fox promoted the appearance on social media, on its website, and during each hour of programming between 6 a.m. O’Reilly appeared on Fox News’ Hannity on September 26 to promote his latest book. September: O’Reilly returned to the Fox airwaves to promote his book. Less than three weeks later, after dozens of advertisers said they would no longer air ads during O’Reilly’s time slot, and as more women came forward, Fox fired O’Reilly, sending him off with a $25 million severance package. On April 1, the Times reported that O’Reilly and 21st Century Fox, Fox News’ parent company, had paid out at least $13 million in settlements to five women who had reported sexual harassment by O’Reilly. Īpril: Fox fired O’Reilly after public reports of his sexual harassment settlements triggered an advertiser boycott. In February, after O’Reilly’s lawyers had informed Fox News of the settlement, O’Reilly “received his new contract, with a salary increase to $25 million, from about $18 million.” The new deal included provisions “that allowed for his dismissal if new allegations or other relevant information arose,” according to the company. As part of the settlement, Wiehl signed an affidavit “stating that the two sides had resolved their dispute and that she had ‘no claims against Bill O’Reilly concerning any of those emails or any of the allegations in the draft complaint.’” įebruary: Fox re-signed O’Reilly to a new contract after learning of Wiehl’s allegations.
Wiehl had landed a job at the network and said she owed him” during a 2001 Fox segment and that he made “suggestive remarks” to her during the radio show they co-hosted.
The Times also reported that O’Reilly announced “that Ms. January: O’Reilly made a massive payout in response to reported “repeated harassment” and a “nonconsensual sexual relationship.” In January, then-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly “struck a $32 million agreement” with Lis Wiehl, a longtime Fox legal analyst who had also served as his lawyer at one point, to forestall a lawsuit covering 15 years of sexual harassment allegations, including “repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her” including via email, The New York Times reported. On Monday, Megyn Kelly, a former O'Reilly colleague who left in January for NBC, went on the air to dispute his claims, reading from evidence obtained from a source she knows well: herself.Sarah Wasko / Media Matters O’Reilly reportedly paid Wiehl $32 million to halt sexual harassment lawsuit
He continues to assert that no women complained about him during the entirety of his twenty-year tenure, and he punctuated his interview with the Times with things like "This is horrible!" and "This is crap!" and other normal things that well-balanced people say when they definitely didn't do the horrible things they've been accused of doing. O'Reilly, as usual, remains very, very mad about all of this. Over the weekend, the New York Times published a report revealing that O'Reilly had settled with an accuser for an astonishing $32 million shortly before the upstanding citizens at Fox News signed him to a $100 million contract extension in February-a decision, one would presume, that it came to regret a few months later. Former Fox News talking head and current sad old creep Bill O'Reilly left the network earlier this year after an avalanche of sexual harassment allegations caused advertisers to flee his stupid show en masse.
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