Lawsuit settled alleging rape by Fox Business anchor

Fox News has settled a lawsuit arising from a woman who alleged being raped by Fox Business Network anchor Charles Payne and then was mistreated after she came forward to report what happened, reports Eriq Gardner of The Hollywood Reporter.

Gardner reports, “Then, in May, Fox came to a settlement with nearly 20 individuals represented by attorney Douglas Wigdor. The company agreed to pay out about $10 million with the goal of putting an end to an ugly chapter in its history.

“At the time, Wigdor was representing Hughes. She didn’t want to be part of that settlement, and so she pursued new representation.

“Now comes the resolution a few weeks after Hughes announced she would be joining RT America as an anchor.

“On Tuesday, a judge ordered the case closed after being informed by the parties of a settlement.

“The deal is confirmed by Fox News.

“According to a statement to The Hollywood Reporter from Fox News, ‘In light of the Opinion and Order issued by Judge William Pauley on April 24, 2018, Fox News Network and Scottie Nell Hughes have reached an agreement to settle Ms. Hughes’s remaining claims that Fox News failed to hire her. All of Ms. Hughes’s other claims had previously been dismissed by the Court.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.