Former Fox’s sports reporter and anchor filed a lawsuit against the network and top executive Charlie Dixon on Friday, discussed the Super Bowl Plan in 2016, and later being kicked out of her work for fighting. Returned to say that she had sexually assaulted her after taking me to the hotel room.
Julie Stewart Binks said she was inspired by her complaint, submitted to the Los Angeles County Court. Former hair stylist of Fox Sports On January 5, the former host repeatedly repeated an unnecessary sexual progress to her and filed a lawsuit that Dixon searched for her.
Fox’s spokesman Andrew Fegyveresi said the claim was handled.
“These claims are more than eight years ago,” said his email. “At that time, we immediately hired a third -party company, investigated the problem based on their survey results.”
FEGYVERESI did not respond in detail what the investigation was found or how their discoveries were dealt with.
In general, AP communication does not identify those who have been sexually assaulted or abused unless they give permission to identify them. Stewart-Binks lawyers said they gave AP permission to use their name.
STEWART-BINKS covers Canada’s soccer and hockey, moved to Los Angeles in 2013 and participated in the Fox Sports 1 team. She was invited to cover the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as a host, and returned to report on NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, Stanrahup playoffs, US boys and women’s national soccer teams. In the fall of 2014, she was the main side line reporter of Anaheim Duck.
Jamie Hollowitz In May 2015, he became the president of Fox Sports, hired Dixon two months later and became an executive vice president of content. “They had the power to choose who they were in the camera for the network,” said the lawsuit.
The accumulation of the Super Bowl in 2016 has been planning to have a plan for the show, Jason Whid Rock’s House Party Visabay, and that Stewart Binks would be in the program. The night before the meeting with the show team, she received a textbook from Dixon to ask him to meet him at his hotel.
According to the lawsuit, after telling her that Dixon needed to talk about the show, she began to blame her because she didn’t want to go to the Super Bowl because she was “interesting but interesting.” Ta. He said, “I can’t handle a big moment on television,” and people would see if she would take off her top. ”
When Stewart Binks came up with her talent, Dixon invited her to his hotel room to see his balcony. She reluctantly agreed. However, on the balcony, Dixon pushed her against the wall, fixed her arms, pushed her body against her, and tried to push her tongue into her mouth.
Stewart Binks pushed him away and ran from the room. At the next day’s team’s Super Bowl Conference on the next day, she was confirmed that she would appear in a wheel rock show. However, she was told that his stint at a university stripper had to confront Ron Gronkosky, a tight end of New England Patriot.
She resisted the idea of seeking the movement of his “magic microphone”, but after Dixon’s comment the night before she wanted to prove something fun, so she asked for a rap dance. The lawsuit said.
Stewart-Binks said she had faced a social media’s immediate rebound from those who said she was setting up a woman through her own actions.
“Following Fox’s instructions, Stewart’s bink was silently silent, but Dixon’s attack and the media depictions paid a deep emotional sacrifice, crying her.”
She was released only after seeing a lawsuit filed by a former Fox hair stylist who made the same claim. Stewart-Binks litigation is seeking an unspecified damages for emotional pain, and FOX needs to take action to prevent current or future sexual abuse.
“MS. Stewart-Binks wants to recognize the need for a sports network to remove the people who abuse power and those who protect them by looking for justice.” Litigation said.
Since leaving Fox Sports, Stewart-Binks has been working on many media, including ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, and TNT. She was also a CBC correspondent in Canada during the 2024 Parisiang Games.
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Jaw Li, Los Angeles’s AP sports reporter, has contributed to this report.