Jennifer Eckhart, a former Fox Business staffer who sued the network and its then-anchor Ed Henry for sexual harassment and retaliation, died Sept. 19 at the age of 35, reports Erik Pederson of Deadline.
Pederson reports, “Eckhart joined Fox Business Network in 2013 and filed a complaint about Henry to FBN in June 2020, alleging ‘willful sexual misconduct in the workplace years ago’ by the married anchor of America’s Newsroom. Henry immediately was suspended and then fired days later ‘based on investigative findings,’ according to a memo to staffer from Fox News Media CEO Suzanne Scott and Fox News Media President & Executive Editor Jay Wallace.
“In the lawsuit, Eckhart claimed that Henry had sexually harassed and raped her, adding that Fox News knew that Henry was harassing other women at the network, something that should have warned executives that he might do the same to her. She also alleged that her firing was in retaliation for the lawsuit.
“Eckhart — who also appeared on Fox News and Fox Nation during her career — was fired from Fox in June 2020, in what the network said was due to tardiness, disclosure of a proprietary graphics package and misappropriation of company resources.”
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