Andrea Tantaros Accuses Roger Ailes Of Sexual Harassment; Says Senior Execs Knew
Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has joined the growing chorus of women accusing Fox's just-deposed chief, Roger Ailes, of sexual harassment. However, in this case, Tantaros is also pointing a finger at some senior Fox News management.
Reporter Gabriel Sherman has some more bombshell reporting, this time about the sudden disappearance of Tantaros from the Fox News airwaves:
According to Tantaros’s account, Ailes began harassing her on August 12, 2014. During a meeting in Ailes’s office, Ailes allegedly asked Tantaros to do “the twirl” so he could see her figure. She refused. Then, in mid-December of that year, Ailes made another advance, Burstein says. “Ailes asked her to turn around, and then he said, ‘Come over here so I can give you a hug.’” Tantaros rebuffed the advance, Burstein says.
In February 2015, Tantaros was pulled off the 5 p.m. program The Five and demoted to working full-time on the midday show Outnumbered. In February 2015, according to Burstein, Ailes allegedly harassed Tantaros again in his office, asking about her workout routine because her body “looked good” and mentioning that she must “really look good in a bikini.”