Skip Bayless, Joy Taylor & Fox Sports Slammed In Sexual Battery & Retaliation Suit; Ex-‘Undisputed’ Host Alleged To Have Offered $1.5M To Hairstylist For Sex

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Skip Bayless and Fox Sports are reunited, though not in a way either party would have hoped for. The former Undisputed host and the Erik Shanks and Mark Silverman run outlet have been hit with a jury seeking complaint claiming Bayless propositioned a hairstylist at Fox Sports with $1.5 million if she would have sex with him.

Characterizing Fox Sports as den of iniquity, the 14-claim January 3 filing in LA Superior Court also alleges that Bayless repeatedly tried to “pressure” plaintiff Noushin Faraji “into having sex with him.” “Ms.

Faraji brings forth this action because for over a decade at Fox, she was forced to endure a misogynistic, racist, and ableist workplace where executives and talent were allowed to physically and verbally abuse workers with impunity,” the sexual battery, retaliation, hostile work environment and fraudulent business practices claiming suit says. Read the sexual battery and 13 other claims against Skip Bayless, Fox Sports, Joy Taylor and others here In tones and terms familiar to those who have read past lawsuits involving sexual harassment and more that Fox entities and executives have been slapped with over the past decade, the potential class action adds: “When Ms.

Faraji and others came forward to report the wrongdoing, instead of addressing their concerns, Fox retaliated against them while the perpetrators and those who protected them were inexplicitly promoted.