Former Fox News producer Abby Grossberg, seen here in an interview on MSNBC, alleged there was a hostile environment riven by sexism and antisemitism when she worked on Tucker Carlson’s show.
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Fox News paid $12 million on Friday to settle a former producer’s lawsuit claiming that Tucker Carlson’s show was an abusive place to work, defined by bigotry, misogyny and bullying.
Abby Grossberg’s suit helped trigger Carlson’s ouster this spring. It also influenced the resolution of a blockbuster defamation suit brought against Fox by Dominion Voting Systems over 2020 election-fraud falsehoods.
“I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the Network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace,” she said in a statement released by her attorney, Tanvir Rahman.
Grossberg, formerly the chief booker of guests for Carlson’s now-canceled show, alleged a hostile environment riven by sexism and antisemitism. In one instance, she described images plastered around the office showing then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a bathing suit with a plunging neckline. In another, she accused a supervisor of challenging staffers on two separate occasions to state which of two female candidates for the Michigan governor’s race they would prefer to have sex with.
She alleged that her boss at the show, Justin Wells, conceded she was paid less than male counterparts. And, according to her lawsuit, the gibes over her Jewish faith were relentless.
At the crux of her suit was the assertion that the culture echoed Carlson’s own sensibility -…
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