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Yahoo
12-03-2025
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Judge Dismisses Claims Against Fox News in Assault Case
A federal judge dismissed claims made against Fox News Channel in a lurid assault case that involved a former associate producer and a former correspondent, noting that management of the cable-news outlet had no knowledge of any conflict or relationship between the two parties until it was notified she had levied sexual harassment claims against him. Fox News had last year filed a request for summary judgement in the case, in which the former producer, Jennifer Eckhart alleged she was raped by Ed Henry, a former Fox News correspondent who was dismissed from the Fox Corp.-backed outlet in 2020 following an investigation into a complaint about 'willful sexual misconduct in the workplace.' Eckhart's lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York in July of 2020. A lawyer for Henry has in the past claimed Eckhart 'initiated and completely encouraged a consensual relationship.' Fox News terminated Eckhart in 2020 prior to her making the allegations tied to Henry. More from Variety Lara Trump to Host Saturday-Night Show on Fox News Will Cain Aims to Bring Freewheeling Video Podcasts to Cable News. Could Others Follow? Will Cain Takes Over Fox News Channel's 4 P.M. Slot In the original suit, Eckhart alleged Henry, who had been an anchor on 'America's Newsroom,' the network's mid-morning news program, 'groomed, psychologically manipulated and coerced Ms. Eckhart into having a sexual relationship with him, and that, when she would not comply voluntarily, he sexually assaulted her on office property, and raped her at a hotel where Fox News frequently lodged its visiting employees.' Fox News, however, said it acted on Eckhart's allegations as soon as they were made. The judge, Ronnie Abrams, said in a decision Wednesday that 'there is no direct evidence that Fox News was aware of Henry's alleged harassment of Eckhart before it occurred. Eckhart acknowledges that she did not tell anyone at the network about their relationship until after she was terminated in mid-2020.' As for claims that Fox News was aware Henry had been involved in affairs with other female employees, the judge found that ' even though Fox News eventually learned about Henry's extramarital affairs, it did not know about many of them until after Eckhart and Henry's final sexual encounter in 2017,' adding: 'Because there is no evidence that Fox News learned about these affairs until April 2017 or later, no reasonable jury could find that they put it on notice that Henry would assault her.' The judge dismissed claims that Henry subjected Eckhart to 'revenge porn,' but allowed claims of 'gender-motivated violence, assault, battery, sex trafficking and harassment' to stand and move forward in the case. Henry has most recently been seen on Newsmax, the conservative news outlet. Best of Variety New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week Oscars 2026: First Blind Predictions Including Timothée Chalamet, Emma Stone, 'Wicked: For Good' and More What's Coming to Disney+ in March 2025
Yahoo
05-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lara Trump to Host Saturday-Night Show on Fox News
Lara Trump, daughter-in-law to President Donald Trump, will host a new Saturday-night primetime show on Fox News Channel, putting the outlet in the unusual position of backing a primetime opinion host with direct connections to a sitting Commander-in-Chief on its schedule. Trump will anchor 'My View,' which Fox News said would 'focus on the return of common sense to all corners of American life as the country ushers in a new era of practicality.' The show is expected to feature both analysis and 'interviews with thought leaders, shedding light on the headlines driving the national conversation and affecting families around the country.' MSNBC offers a program with similar concepts, 'Inside With Jen Psaki,' the former White House Press Secretary for President Joe Biden, which runs Sundays and Mondays. More from Variety Will Cain Aims to Bring Freewheeling Video Podcasts to Cable News. Could Others Follow? Will Cain Takes Over Fox News Channel's 4 P.M. Slot Anchors Away: TV-News Veterans Exit Ahead of Ratings Challenges, Digital Change in 2025 Suzanne Scott, the CEO of Fox News Media, called Trump 'a gifted communicator who knows how to connect to the viewers, successful entrepreneur and working mother:' and said 'Lara's innate understanding of the American public and today's political landscape will be a compelling addition to our weekend lineup.' It could also be a complicated one. News organizations like CNN and MSNBC have had to pivot when anchors with relatives who were politicians came under scrutiny. At MSNBC, for example, Alicia Melendez in 2023 had to recuse herself on air from coverage of her father, then-Senator Bob Melendez, after he was indicted on criminal charges for abuses of power. CNN found itself under unwanted scrutiny in 2021 when Chris Cuomo, brother of former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, was found to have helped his sibling when he was facing claims of sexual abuse. Lara Trump recently served as the Republican National Committee's co-chair, and was a senior adviser to the Trump campaign during the 2020 presidential election. While her knowledge of and access to the current Trump administration will no doubt be valuable for Fox News Channel, her close connection to the White House is likely to mean she will have less independence from it. All of Fox News' primetime hosts are conservative, but some on occasion, including Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity, take issue with some White House policies. Indeed, Fox News enjoys a narrower degree of separation from the Trump administration these days, owing to the fact that two former anchors, Pete Hegesth and Sean Duffy, have been approved to serve as the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the U.S. Secretary of Transportation. Lara Trump has worked for Fox News in the past. She worked as a contributor to Fox News between 2021 and 2022. She has hosted a web series ,'The Right View,' since 2020,which features a panel of conservative women discussing various social and political issues. Trump began her career as a producer for CBS' 'Inside Edition.' Best of Variety Grammy Predictions, From Beyoncé to Kendrick Lamar: Who Will Win? Who Should Win? New Movies Out Now in Theaters: What to See This Week What's Coming to Netflix in February 2025
