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A number of media shops reported Sunday {that a} hairstylist who used to work at Fox Sports activities is suing a community govt and media personalities Skip Bayless and Pleasure Taylor, claiming that all of them performed a job in making a hostile work surroundings the place sexual harassment was frequent.
Attorneys for Noushin Faraji filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County court docket on Friday. She says that she labored at Fox Sports activities from 2012 till August 2024 and, in keeping with the swimsuit, “was pressured to endure a misogynistic, racist and ableist office the place executives and expertise had been allowed to bodily and verbally abuse staff with impunity.”
Fox Sports activities and its subsidiaries, govt vice chairman of content material of FS1 Charlie Dixon, Bayless and Taylor are listed as defendants within the case.
Dixon allegedly grabbed Faraji’s buttocks throughout a celebration, and when Faraji went to Taylor to inform her what had occurred, Taylor supposedly advised the hairstylist to “recover from it.”
On high of that encounter, the lawsuit states that an nameless worker knowledgeable Faraji that she would not be retaining her job since she did not have intercourse with Dixon in trade for a brand new contract. The swimsuit additionally notes that the nameless worker stated that Dixon “was doing this to different girls expertise.”
Fox apparently didn’t totally examine Dixon’s sexual advances, and the swimsuit filed by Faraji claims that the manager used his place within the office to get girls to have sexual relations with him.
Whereas engaged on Bayless’ present, “Undisputed,” Faraji was the goal of repeated sexual advances by Bayless, in keeping with the lawsuit. She tried to cease them by telling Bayless that she doubtlessly had most cancers, however the habits continued.
The swimsuit additionally claims that Bayless provided Faraji $1.5 million to have intercourse. One week after that proposal, Bayless allegedly made one other advance, with Faraji citing the truth that he has a spouse. Bayless then supposedly stated, “Aren’t you Muslim? Does not your dad have three to 4 wives?”
Bayless additionally accused Faraji of sleeping together with his co-host, Shannon Sharpe, in keeping with the lawsuit.
Taylor apparently was “insulting Ms. Faraji on a private {and professional} degree” after the 2 stopped being pals.
Faraji is searching for an unknown quantity of financial damages and a jury trial within the swimsuit.
–Area Stage Media