Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Associated Press
NEW YORK
Three new lawsuits filed Monday allege racial discrimination or sexual harassment at Fox News.
The cases increase to 23 the number of past or present Fox employees represented by attorney Doug Wigdor, the majority having cases alleging racial hostility by a since-fired financial executive. Fox said Monday the suits have no legal basis.
Former Fox employee Adasa Blanco said she alerted Fox executives about racially hostile behavior by former Fox controller Judith Slater more than eight years before the executive was let go.
Naima Farrow, another former Fox employee who worked for Slater, said that she was fired without warning or explanation in 2015 less than three days after telling superiors she was pregnant. Kathleen Lee, a Fox News Radio employee who also sued Monday, said she was sexually harassed.