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(CBS/AP) Fox News anchor Bill O'Reilly has been slapped with a sexual harassment lawsuit by a female employee who claims the conservative talk-show host repeatedly subjected her to sexual harassment through dinner and phone conversations variously described as lewd, lascivious, vile and threatening.
O'Reilly, 55, also filed a lawsuit. It claims the alleged victim of the harassment, Fox associate producer Andrea Mackris, 33, threatened him with the lawsuit in an attempt to extort hush money from the Fox News star.
The Smoking Gun first reported the charges and counter-charges and posted a copy of Makris' lawsuit on its Web site.
Mackris' lawsuit asserts that during a phone conversation this August, O'Reilly suggested she buy a vibrator and was clearly excited. Before hanging up, she said, O'Reilly told her: "I appreciate the fun phone call."
She contended he made a similar call Sept. 21, ending that one by saying: "Next time you'll come up to my hotel room and we'll make this happen."
In his countersuit against Mackris and her attorney, Benedict Morelli, O'Reilly said Morelli demanded $60 million in "hush money" to not file the lawsuit.
"As a public figure, I have received many threats," he said. "But enough is enough ... The threats stop now. I will not give in to extortion."
O'Reilly's lawyer, Ronald Green, said he believes there are tapes of conversations between the two and asked a court to compel Mackris to produce them so they could be played publicly.
"I know that he does not fear what is on the tapes," Green said.
Morelli would not comment on whether any taped phone conversations exist.
Besides the attempt for money, O'Reilly charged that his accuser and her lawyer were trying to embarrass him and Fox News Channel three weeks before the election. Morelli, he said, is a contributor to the Democratic Party; "The O'Reilly Factor" is a particular favorite among Republican viewers.
Morelli said his political contributions had nothing to do with the case.
"When he sued me today, I understood what kind of bully he is," the lawyer said. Mackris sat next to Morelli at a news conference Wednesday, but did not speak and would not answer questions.
A former White House intern in the first Bush administration, Mackris began working for O'Reilly in April 2000. Her complaint said that the first time she noticed odd behavior by O'Reilly came in 2002, when the Fox host allegedly urged her to use a vibrator after her engagement broke off.
Mackris' complaint said she told O'Reilly she was not interested in phone sex and felt "trapped" after his first inappropriate phone call.
Mackris never complained to anyone at Fox about untoward behavior by O'Reilly, Green said. When she returned to Fox earlier this year, O'Reilly agreed to match her salary at CNN, the network said.
Fox produced an e-mail Mackris sent to a friend last month, saying things are "wonderful, amazing, fun, creative, invigorating, secure, well-managed, challenging, interesting fun and surrounded by really good, fun people. I'm home and I'll never leave again."
Mackris said in her lawsuit that she told O'Reilly she would return to Fox only if he stopped the inappropriate behavior.
She said O'Reilly told her: "If any woman ever breathed a word I'll make her pay so dearly that she'll wish she'd never been/ born. I'll rake her through the mud, bring up things in her life and make her so miserable that she'll be destroyed."
On his show Wednesday, O'Reilly called the case "the single most evil thing I have ever experienced, and I've seen a lot. But these people picked the wrong guy."
One of the defendants named in the lawsuit against O'Reilly is Westwood One, which distributes his radio program. Westwood One is managed by Infinity Broadcasting. Infinity Broadcasting and CBS are both owned by Viacom.
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He's innocent untill proven guilty, but I'm not at all surprised.
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Not at all surprised. Anyone with an ego that big gets in trouble eventually.
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Morelli said his political contributions had nothing to do with the case.
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Mackris never complained to anyone at Fox about untoward behavior by O'Reilly
This could be a problem for her. If you don't tell the alleged harasser that he is bothering you, it is often difficult to prove an intent to harass.
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as more and more women get out of the kitchen this is likely to happen more often.....
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More information will come out so that we can make a resonable judgement. Your father never hugged you.
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From the NY Daily News:
Bill O'Reilly's accuser had a crush on the talk show host and voluntarily engaged in "intimate" phone talks with him, according to a former friend of the woman.
But at some point, the ex-pal said, O'Reilly's relationship with Andrea Mackris went sour - and she vowed to take her boss down in a juicy tell-all book.
Restaurateur Matthew Paratore gave a sworn statement to O'Reilly's lawyers, saying he thought he had "something they should know."
At his North West restaurant on the upper West Side, Paratore told the Daily News that Mackris is not your typical sex-harassment victim.
"She loved the guy. She admired him," said Paratore, 38. "She respected him."
He said she confided in O'Reilly after she split with her fiancé in 2002.
"From one of those conversations grew a relationship where they would have more intimate talk over the phone," he said. "From what she told me, I wouldn't characterize it as phone sex. This was not harassment. It was very clear to me that this was their little banter back and forth. This was their game or something."
Mackris, 33, an associate producer with "The O'Reilly Factor," filed a lawsuit last week claiming O'Reilly sexually harassed her in phone-sex calls.
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i don't think o'reilly did anything, and i don't think i'd really care. i really like him.
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The fact that O'Reilly and his lawyer say, "Sounds like she has tapes of these conversations. Let's hear them," makes me believe that he has nothing to hide. I may be wrong, but why would he push for those if he had done what she said?
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I think that lawsuits like this ought to be settled in the time honored tradition of trial by combat. According to tradition, whoever is victorious is right in the eyes of the law.
And were they to televise them, the ratings would obliterate any and all competition.
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I think that lawsuits like this ought to be settled in the time honored tradition of trial by combat. According to tradition, whoever is victorious is right in the eyes of the law.
And were they to televise them, the ratings would obliterate any and all competition.
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Much at stake in O'Reilly empire
The commentator's cable TV future and various projects could be affected by a sexual harassment lawsuit.
By Scott Collins, Times Staff Writer
For the moment, the "No Spin Zone" is turning into a No Show Zone.
When a 33-year-old associate producer sued Bill O'Reilly last week, claiming he'd subjected her to lewd "monologues" and pressured her to engage in phone sex, the host of the nation's No. 1 cable talk show came out swinging, accusing the woman and her attorney of attempting to extort $60 million.
But the outspoken O'Reilly has since grown uncharacteristically subdued — and it has become clear that the fate of his merchandising and publishing empire, no less than his future as a top-rated cable-TV star, may be hanging in the balance.
A guest host sat in for him Friday on Fox News Channel's "The O'Reilly Factor," and O'Reilly abruptly canceled appearances to promote his new book, "The O'Reilly Factor for Kids," on ABC's "The View" and HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher." He also scrapped a sit-down scheduled for today on CBS' "The Early Show" and a Nov. 1 talk with PBS host Charlie Rose, according to Seale Ballenger, a spokesman for publisher Harper Entertainment (which, like Fox News, is a subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp.)
Since rising to prominence during the Clinton impeachment, O'Reilly's "No Spin" empire has spread successfully into other media. Three previous books have been national bestsellers. He also hosts a nationally syndicated radio program and is a highly sought-after speaker. His website (billoreilly.com)sells premium memberships for $49.95 a year.
"We hope to resume the book promotion with Mr. O'Reilly at a later date, and we wish him well during this difficult time," the publisher said in a statement. A woman who answered the phone Friday at O'Reilly's office said he was not taking calls, and a Fox News spokesman said he was unavailable for comment.
"I have been advised to keep my big mouth shut, and I have promised to do that," O'Reilly told the New York Daily News in a story published Friday. "I am getting hounded by the press, and I knew I would be…. This has been the worst day of my life."
The showdown with associate producer Andrea Mackris could even end up playing into the network's long-running rivalry with CNN — which Fox has been beating more than 2 to 1.
One CNN insider said Friday that the network was considering moving "Lou Dobbs Tonight" — which currently airs at 3 p.m. Pacific time and has been gaining in the ratings as Dobbs has become a more opinionated questioner on issues such as outsourcing of jobs — to go head-to-head against O'Reilly. CNN wouldn't comment, but an insider said such a move was one of many under consideration.
Still, based on the evidence so far, the deluge of embarrassing publicity over the suit — which quotes O'Reilly as speaking crudely to his associate producer about vibrators, masturbation, sexual fantasies and exploits — doesn't seem to have curbed popular appetites for the talk-show host. On the contrary, 3.3 million viewers tuned in to his program Thursday night — about 10% more than usual — to hear O'Reilly denounce Mackris, while not specifically denying any of her charges.
His latest book briefly rose in Amazon.com sales rankings after news of the suit broke, although by Sunday it had dropped to No. 116, down from No. 56 on Friday evening. And O'Reilly's website still offered branded merchandise for sale, including "Boycott France" bumper stickers ($2.50), "The Spin Stops Here!" tote bags ($19.95) and "The Rain Stops Here" umbrellas ($37.50).
Over the long term, the survival of O'Reilly and his enterprises may hinge on the contents of the tapes that many believe Mackris made of their conversations (she has not confirmed their existence, and her lawyer did not return calls Friday).
"If he comes off as being a sleazeball on the tapes … that could be devastating to his career," said Alan Siegel, founder of the New York-based branding firm Siegel & Gale. But if the tapes never materialize, Siegel added, "I think he's strong enough to 'spin' this, even though he says he doesn't do that."
Siegel compared O'Reilly's situation to that of Marv Albert, the sportscaster who was fired from NBC in 1997 after becoming embroiled in a sex scandal and pleading guilty to a misdemeanor assault charge. Albert later said he underwent therapy, and he's since resumed his career at several cable networks.
But Albert is a play-by-play announcer, not a commentator who weighs in nightly on social and political issues. O'Reilly has criticized politicians and entertainers he believes set a bad example. In 2002, for example, he launched a campaign against rapper Ludacris, whom he accused of peddling "a life of guns, violence, drugs and disrespect of women." PepsiCo subsequently pulled an ad featuring the performer, saying it had received complaints about his lyrics.
The irony of O'Reilly, a self-avowed traditionalist-turned-kids' book author, being accused of lurid workplace behavior was not lost among some of those posting comments at Amazon.com. "Well, well, well, the hypocrite is finally exposed — sex tapes and all," one wrote. "I wouldn't let him within 100 ft. of my child," another volunteered.
The message boards on some right-leaning websites were not much kinder. "This could be the ruination of Bill as we know him," wrote one poster on www.freerepublic.com, a site devoted to "grass-roots conservatism." Said another: "Couldn't happen to a bigger jerk!"
Siegel said the suit may tarnish O'Reilly's reputation among many core fans. "The religious people, the fundamentalists, are going to be upset by" the accusations, he said.
That could prove especially tough for O'Reilly, given that he and Fox have promoted his image as a straight-shooting man of the people. "Raised in a working class family in the huge housing subdivision of Levittown, New York, Bill O'Reilly has stayed close to his roots," according to the bio on his website. "He still lives on Long Island, is married with two children, and his best friends remain the neighborhood guys."
The scandal "really destroys his credibility of what he claims to be," said Jim Gilliam, co-producer of "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism," a film that attacked Fox News for alleged right-wing bias. "He certainly can't be giving advice to kids." On Friday, Gilliam's website posted a five-minute video, "The O'Sexxxy Factor," that edited together excerpts of O'Reilly segments on collegiate wet T-shirt contests and other salacious material, which the filmmaker said showed the host's "obsession" with sex.
Not all O'Reilly foes were leaping for joy. Liberal commentator Al Franken — whose gleeful ridicule of O'Reilly has turned him into the kind of enemy that Fox news chief Roger Ailes might "go after," according to O'Reilly as quoted in Mackris' suit — has carefully avoided making light of the harassment suit. "This is a sad thing," Franken told his radio listeners Thursday. "There is no schadenfreude here."
Meanwhile, legal experts expect a drawn-out and potentially riveting litigation. Shortly before Mackris filed suit, O'Reilly filed a preemptive extortion claim against her and her attorney, saying that Mackris never complained of harassment to Fox News management and that the allegations were politically motivated. In interviews since then, both sides have indicated that the suits were exchanged after settlement talks broke down.
"It's what everybody's talking about," said Manhattan sexual harassment expert Anne Vladeck, who teaches the subject at Columbia Law School. "I think what's pretty clear is that she has some tapes of some pretty egregious sexual comments."
Such taping would be legal in New York, even if Mackris did not inform O'Reilly that he was being recorded, a spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office said. Even if there was no physical contact, the kind of talk Mackris describes in her suit "clearly fits into the classic definition of a hostile work environment," Vladeck said. But she cautioned that only a full hearing of the tapes would clarify such issues.
Until then, the curious may have to content themselves with examining O'Reilly's past pronouncements on the subject of sexual harassment.
During a March interview with New York University professor Linda Mills, he said he knew men well because he was a "manly man," and then opined: "I think that the sexual harassment thing is used as a club, as I said, by many women…. It's something they have against men, a threat to keep men at bay in a very competitive marketplace…. There are women who manipulate themselves and use their sexuality to get ahead."
Times staff writers Paul Lieberman and Elizabeth Jensen contributed to this story from New York.
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...In fact, one of the interesting features of the lawsuit Mackris filed against O'Reilly is that it contains extensive verbatim quotations of his allegedly harassing comments but nothing of her actual responses, though she is variously characterized as "frightened … angry, abused and disgusted."
Did a 33-year-old woman who has worked as a news producer for Fox and CNN sit mute through these repeated rants? Never said stop? Never said go take a cold shower you ridiculous old lech? Does she not know how to hang up the phone?
Something about all this reminds one that not all lawsuits are meritorious and not all lawsuits are malicious, which is why you have courts to conduct a truth-seeking process.
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Not a big O'Reilly fan but my gram is. I think she'll continue to be, this doesn't seem to have much merit.
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I agree MEM. However, NewsCorp is sure going about handling this accusation in the stupidest way imaginable. It's a Human Resources Mgr's worst niughtmare having your company use their tabloid, The New York Post to exacerbate the situation.
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I agree MEM. However, NewsCorp is sure going about handling this accusation in the stupidest way imaginable. It's a Human Resources Mgr's worst niughtmare having your company use their tabloid, The New York Post to exacerbate the situation.
What's interesting, however, is that the Posts's bitter rival, the NY Daily News (which usually goes out of its way to embarass the Murdoch group) is also now printing the material about Reilly's accuser being a "scorned woman."
In fact, that's where I cited my story this morning from.
If the News is slamming this woman, it would seem to indicate that maybe there is something to her being a "fake."
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I believe that O'Reilly could do something like this, but I don't think he has. This smacks of a jilted lover attempting to fatal attraction a man who is, without wishing to offend G-Man or Wannabuyamonkey or any other Repbulicans, a bit of a git.
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without wishing to offend G-Man or Wannabuyamonkey or any other Repbulicans, a bit of a git.
I can't speak for G-Man, but I'm not offended at all, infact I would agree that he is a git! I'm not a fan at all.
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That's somewhat odd, because I am.
Perhaps he's not Republicanish enough.
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I like O'Reilly's radio show.
BTW, all this talk of O'Reilly as a right winger is always interesting to me.
If O'Reilly is a Republican, and he says he is an independent, he's definitely a Republican in the McCain/Arnold/Pataki mold. He takes a lot of "moderate" positions on things, including the environment and, I seem to recall, gun control, and he was and is VERY critical of Swift Boat Vets, Rumsfeld and the "neocons."
If anything, I'd call him a "populist" more than a conservative.
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and he was and is VERY critical of Swift Boat Vets, Rumsfeld and the "neocons."
"neocons"??
What are these "neocons"?
Cuz from what I hear, that's anti-semetic language there....
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In fact, dear whomod, you are the reason I put scare quotes around the word "neocons"
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In fact, dear whomod, you are the reason I put scare quotes around the word "neocons"
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You're just upset that the 'neocon is hate speech' ploy didn't catch on.
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Is a settlement now in the works? Andrea Mackris may be ready to settle her sex-harassment battle with Fox TV host Bill O'Reilly.
Mackris' lawyer, Benedict Morelli, made a back-channel overture to O'Reilly's team on Tuesday, according to a source close to O'Reilly.
Morelli called Court TV anchor Lisa Bloom when he heard she would be discussing the case on air with Bo Dietl, a private eye who has been gathering information on Mackris for O'Reilly's lawyers, the source said.
Bloom and Morelli became acquainted while both appeared on the Fox TV show "Power of Attorney."
The source said Morelli asked Bloom to tell Dietl that Mackris is "willing to settle."
Sources said Bloom agreed to act as go-between and told Dietl off-camera that Mackris was ready to deal.
"It seemed like she was trying to broker a deal," according to one witness to the discussion. "She said, 'This thing should be settled.'"
Sources close to O'Reilly's team have hinted that Mackris may need the money. Yesterday, an Internet news site reported it had a financial report showing Mackris is almost $100,000 in debt. The claim, made by the Drudge Report, has not been confirmed.
Mackris, 33, claimed she was subjected to sexual comments by O'Reilly while she was an associate producer for "The O'Reilly Factor."
O'Reilly claimed Mackris and Morelli tried to extort $60 million in return for her silence.
Dietl declined to discuss his conversation with Bloom, but said, "I've stayed out of the negotiations."
Bloom was not available for comment yesterday, but Court TV spokeswoman Patty Caruso said, "She definitely did not make any offer on behalf of Andrea Mackris or her lawyer."
Repeated calls to the legal teams of Mackris and O'Reilly, and to Mackris, were not returned yesterday.
Mackris has told the Daily News there have been no negotiations since Tuesday, but pointed out it always was her intention to settle the case out of court.
A spokeswoman for Morelli's legal firm confirmed: "We always wanted to settle this in private and it's always an option."
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Who is this woman acctually? is she an on air personality or someone behind the scene?
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Awww...I wanted to see them fight to the death.
Oh well - there'll be other lawsuits some day.
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Maybe, if Celebrity Deathmatch is still running, they could appear there?
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Statement from Ronald Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Thursday October 28, 6:41 pm ET
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 28, 2004--The Parties regret that this matter has caused tremendous pain, and they have agreed to settle. All cases and claims have been withdrawn and all Parties have agreed that there was no wrongdoing whatsoever by Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Mackris, or Ms. Mackris' counsel, Benedict P. Morelli & Associates. We now withdraw any assertion that any extortion by Ms. Mackris, Mr. Morelli, or Morelli & Associates occurred. Out of respect for their families and privacy, all Parties and their representatives have agreed that all information relating to the cases shall remain confidential.
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You'd think that at least one of the things happened--either the harassment or the extortion attempt. Otherwise, that just makes both sides liars.
And that's terrible.
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Kristogar Velo said:
You'd think that at least one of the things happened--either the harassment or the extortion attempt. Otherwise, that just makes both sides liars.
My theory.... and it's only a theory is that Bill did say nasty things to her, but it was mutual. So if they went to trial Bill would have all these recording of him being a perv wich would kill his ratings, but in the end she wouldn't get any money, so that way they would both lose. This way she gets the money and he gets to hide his perverted (though legal) hidden personallity.
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