Former Fox News Employee Sues Over Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Deceased CEO

Former Fox News employee Laura Luhn filed a bombshell lawsuit against her former employer on Wednesday, alleging she was subjected to decades of sexual and psychological abuse at the hands of the network’s late longtime CEO Roger Ailes.

The former director of booking at Fox claims management at the network and its parent company Twenty-First Century Fox allowed the disgraced CEO to abuse her. The suit claims former Fox executive Bill Shine, described as “Ailes’s hatchet man,” enabled the behavior. Shine was Donald Trump’s one-time White House deputy chief of staff and is also being sued by Luhn.

Soon after she began working for Ailes at his communications firm in 1991, Luhn suffered “a nightmare of sexual abuse” at Ailes’ hands, her suit claims. It alleges the pugnacious media executive, who advised Republican presidents from Richard Nixon to Trump, took videos of her performing coerced sex acts that he kept in a safe-deposit box and used as blackmail.

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