Six More Women Allege That Roger Ailes Sexually Harassed Them, Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to allege Roger Ailes of animal harassment, but she is not the first. In my 2014 adventures of the Fox News chief, I included interviews with four women who told me Ailes had acclimated his position of ability to accomplish either exceptionable animal advances or inappropriate animal comments in the office.
And it appears she won’t be the last, either. In contempo days, added than a dozen women accept contacted Carlson’s New Jersey-based attorney, Nancy Erika Smith, and fabricated abundant allegations of animal aggravation by Ailes over a 25-year aeon dating ashamed to the 1960s if he was a ambassador on The Mike Douglas Show. “These are women who accept never told these belief until now,” Smith told me. “Some are in lot of pain.” Taken together, these belief portray Ailes as a bang-up who batten aboveboard of assured women to accomplish animal favors in barter for job opportunities. “He said that’s how all these men in media and backroom plan — everyone’s got their friend,” recalled Kellie Boyle, who says Ailes propositioned her in 1989, anon afterwards he helped George H.W Bush become president., confined as his arch media strategist.
Six of the women agreed to allege with New York about for the aboriginal time. Two batten on the record; the others requested anonymity for affidavit that cover abashment and abhorrence of retribution. “I didn’t acquaint my husband, it was so mortifying,” said Marsha Callahan, a above archetypal who says Ailes addled her in the backward ‘60s, anon afore he became Richard Nixon’s media adviser.
Ailes is acutely aggravating to accumulate these belief out of the columnist and the courts. Backward on Friday, his attorneys filed a motion in federal cloister in New Jersey gluttonous to move Carlson’s accusation to arbitration, which would anticipate assemblage from getting alleged in court. “Plaintiff’s artifice of filing in Superior Cloister to absolve her abandoned publicity advance adjoin Roger Ailes should not be countenanced,” Ailes’s attorneys argued. Carlson's attorneys responded in a statement: "Roger Ailes is aggravating to force this case into a abstruse adjudication proceeding...Gretchen never agreed to adjudge annihilation with Mr. Ailes.”
Ailes’s abettor Irena Briganti did not acknowledge to requests for comment.
Here are the women’s accounts:
Kellie Boyle, 54
Former Republican National Committee acreage adviser
This was ashamed in 1989. I was 29 and active in New Jersey. My bedmate formed at CNBC and he said, ‘Roger Ailes is advancing in to be interviewed, would you like to accommodated him?’ I said yes! I’d formed in political communications for the Republican National Committee; so Roger Ailes was like a God. I’d apprehend his book, You Are the Message, and I acclimated it for a lot of training I did for candidates. I alien myself in the blooming allowance and he was actual absorbing and said, ‘Would you like to arrangement my arrangement city sometime?’ A anniversary or two afterwards I went in and mentioned to him I was traveling down to D.C. the afterward anniversary to assurance a above arrangement with the National Republican Congressional Committee. He said, ‘I’m traveling to be in D.C. too. Would you like to accept banquet afore you go in?’ So we had a nice banquet at a restaurant in Union Station. There was annihilation adverse about it at all. He had a disciplinarian and a car, and afterwards banquet he said, ‘Can I yield you to your friend’s?’ So we get in the car and that’s if he said, ‘You apperceive if you wish to play with the big boys, you accept to lay with the big boys.’ I was so taken aback. I said, ‘Gosh I didn’t apperceive that. How would that work?’ I was aggravating to annihilate time because I didn’t apperceive if he was traveling to advance me. I was just talking until I could get out of the car. He said, ‘That’s the way it works,’ and he started allotment added women he’s had. He said that’s how all these men in media and backroom plan — everyone’s got their friend. I said, ‘Would I accept to be accompany with anybody else?’ And he said, ‘Well you ability accept to accord a bl--job every already in a while.’ I told him I was traveling to accept to anticipate about this. He said, ‘No, if you don’t do it now, you apperceive that bureau you won’t.’ The next morning I appearance up to get my arrangement and was told the guy I was declared to be affair with was unavailable. Ashamed in New Jersey I got a alarm from Roger Ailes. He said, ‘How’d your affair go?’ I said, ‘Actually he wasn’t accessible and I’m acquisitive to apprehend ashamed from him.’ He said, ‘Ah, well, I’m abiding you will. Accept you afflicted your apperception yet?’ I said, ‘I’ll accept to pass, Roger. I’m affiliated and absolutely committed to my husband. No offense.’ He said, ‘Well, we’ll be in touch.’ And that was that. A brace weeks later, I alleged a acquaintance who was actual top up in the RNC and I asked him what happened. He said, ‘Word went out you weren’t to be hired.’
Marsha Callahan, 73
Former model
This was either ’68 or ’67. At the time he was bearing The Mike Douglas Show, and I had a alarm from my clay bureau about the show. I got a alarm anon from Roger allurement me to appear down and to accomplish abiding I wore a accolade belt and stockings. This was appropriate afterwards pantyhose came into use, and I said, ‘Why would you wish me to do that instead of pantyhose?’ He said, ‘If your legs attending acceptable in a accolade belt, I’ll apperceive you accept abundant legs.’ So I go into his arrangement and appropriate abroad he says, ‘Sit on the daybed and lift your brim up.’ I had to do these altered poses. And then, I anamnesis actual clearly, he said he’d put me on the appearance but I bare to go to bed with him. I was a absolutely shy girl, but I was a little bold so I said, ‘Oh yeah, you and who else?’ And he said, ‘Only me and a few of my baddest friends.’ I said, ‘Well, if you anticipate I accept brilliant superior and you can accomplish money off my looks, I don’t anticipate it’d amount if I went to bed with you or not.’ And he said, ‘Oh, appealing girls like you are a dime a dozen.’ The account concluded quickly. I was alleged in to do the appearance and I bethink casual Roger in the hallway. He affected not to apperceive who I was.
Susan*, 66
Former model
I was 16 years old active in Radnor, Pennsylvania. I was beatific over for a walk-on allotment on The Mike Douglas Appearance in the winter of 1967. It was 6:30 in the black and the abode was absolutely closing up. Ailes took me into this big arrangement and bound the aperture with a key. He reclined on a couch in a basement breadth beneath a map that had flags of all the cities they were amalgamated in. He proceeded to cull down his pants and actual calculating cull out his genitals and said, “Kiss them.” And they were red like raw hamburger. He was appealing anxiously dressed, with continued white shirttails advancing out. It was like he was just at the end of a continued day and I was declared to apperceive what to do. I was a kid, I’d never apparent a man’s genitalia before. I jumped up, but the aperture is bound and nobody’s out there. He chased me about the arrangement and at some point it dawned on him that this just wasn’t traveling to happen. He assuredly pulled up his trousers. He was actual affronted and rushed over to his desk, pulled accessible a aperture and had a reel-to-reel band recorder going. He said to me, ‘Don’t acquaint anybody about this. I’ve got it all on tape.’ I anticipate he knew I was sixteen.
Jane*, 62
Former model/actress
It was about 1984; I was about 30. I had just accustomed in New York. My abettor was acquisitive to get me into broadcasting. I had an arrangement with Ailes. He had a camera set up and a little board and a Software for me. It was a affable affectionate of thing, talking about aliment and what not. Afterwards he taped me, he bound the aperture and said he didn’t wish any interruptions. I ample out appealing bound there was no job and this was just ruse. He pulled out a accolade belt and stockings and told me to put them on. I was actual nervous; I didn’t apperceive what to do. He was continuing there and I put them on. He capital me to archetypal them for him. Afterwards that, something animal took place, but I blocked it out of my mind. I don’t apperceive if I affianced with him orally or he affianced with himself. I acquainted I was getting acclimated for his animal satisfaction. I acquainted actual threatened. He capital me to yield the lingerie home for the next time. I said, ‘No acknowledge you, I don’t wish to accumulate it for the next time.’ I larboard and I knew I’d never return. Through the years I acquainted like a abhorrent being because I accustomed this to appear to me and I didn’t just say f--k off and airing out of the room. My bedmate doesn’t even know.
Diane*, 69
Media adviser
This is something I’ve agitated with me and haven’t told anybody. I was just abashed to apprehend about Gretchen’s adventure and see how he’s behaving afterwards 50 years. This was so continued ago. I was in academy accomplishing some clay plan with an bureau in the Philadelphia area. This would accept been backward ’65 or aboriginal ’66; I would accept been 18 or 19 years old. A agglomeration of us girls at the bureau were alleged over to audience for him for some array of absurdity on The Mike Douglas Show. He had a allowance and one by one he would yield us abaft bankrupt doors. If my about-face came I went in and he didn’t decay any time. He affective me and had his easily on me and he affected me to kiss him. If I recoiled he said, ‘Well, you apperceive no girls get a job actuality unless they’re cooperative.’ I just pushed him abroad and ran out of there. He was like, whatever. So, no job for me. He did appoint several of the girls from the group, but I don’t apperceive what they had to do to get the job.
Pat*, 65
Former TV producer
It was 1975. I had a amount in accumulation communications. A academy acquaintance said, ‘Come to New York.’ I got an account with Roger Ailes. I bethink I met him not at some big TV office; it was at his accommodation on Central Park South. I don’t bethink his exact words, but his bulletin was: If you wish to accomplish it in New York City in the TV business, you’re traveling to accept to fuck me, and you’re traveling to do that with anyone I acquaint you to. I was abashed he was traveling to pin me down. He was a big guy and I’m not big at all. He could accept baffled me. I bethink active out of that accommodation like my hair was on blaze and continuing on the sidewalk crying, thinking, What’s that guy anticipate I was, a prostitute? In one additional my dreams were shot. He’s traveling to banish me everywhere, I’ll never get addition interview, I’m not acceptable abundant — all that being a 20-something babe thinks. It wasn’t, that guy’s a son of a b--ch and I should accept kicked him in the balls.
And it appears she won’t be the last, either. In contempo days, added than a dozen women accept contacted Carlson’s New Jersey-based attorney, Nancy Erika Smith, and fabricated abundant allegations of animal aggravation by Ailes over a 25-year aeon dating ashamed to the 1960s if he was a ambassador on The Mike Douglas Show. “These are women who accept never told these belief until now,” Smith told me. “Some are in lot of pain.” Taken together, these belief portray Ailes as a bang-up who batten aboveboard of assured women to accomplish animal favors in barter for job opportunities. “He said that’s how all these men in media and backroom plan — everyone’s got their friend,” recalled Kellie Boyle, who says Ailes propositioned her in 1989, anon afterwards he helped George H.W Bush become president., confined as his arch media strategist.
Six of the women agreed to allege with New York about for the aboriginal time. Two batten on the record; the others requested anonymity for affidavit that cover abashment and abhorrence of retribution. “I didn’t acquaint my husband, it was so mortifying,” said Marsha Callahan, a above archetypal who says Ailes addled her in the backward ‘60s, anon afore he became Richard Nixon’s media adviser.
Ailes is acutely aggravating to accumulate these belief out of the columnist and the courts. Backward on Friday, his attorneys filed a motion in federal cloister in New Jersey gluttonous to move Carlson’s accusation to arbitration, which would anticipate assemblage from getting alleged in court. “Plaintiff’s artifice of filing in Superior Cloister to absolve her abandoned publicity advance adjoin Roger Ailes should not be countenanced,” Ailes’s attorneys argued. Carlson's attorneys responded in a statement: "Roger Ailes is aggravating to force this case into a abstruse adjudication proceeding...Gretchen never agreed to adjudge annihilation with Mr. Ailes.”
Ailes’s abettor Irena Briganti did not acknowledge to requests for comment.
Here are the women’s accounts:
Kellie Boyle, 54
Former Republican National Committee acreage adviser
This was ashamed in 1989. I was 29 and active in New Jersey. My bedmate formed at CNBC and he said, ‘Roger Ailes is advancing in to be interviewed, would you like to accommodated him?’ I said yes! I’d formed in political communications for the Republican National Committee; so Roger Ailes was like a God. I’d apprehend his book, You Are the Message, and I acclimated it for a lot of training I did for candidates. I alien myself in the blooming allowance and he was actual absorbing and said, ‘Would you like to arrangement my arrangement city sometime?’ A anniversary or two afterwards I went in and mentioned to him I was traveling down to D.C. the afterward anniversary to assurance a above arrangement with the National Republican Congressional Committee. He said, ‘I’m traveling to be in D.C. too. Would you like to accept banquet afore you go in?’ So we had a nice banquet at a restaurant in Union Station. There was annihilation adverse about it at all. He had a disciplinarian and a car, and afterwards banquet he said, ‘Can I yield you to your friend’s?’ So we get in the car and that’s if he said, ‘You apperceive if you wish to play with the big boys, you accept to lay with the big boys.’ I was so taken aback. I said, ‘Gosh I didn’t apperceive that. How would that work?’ I was aggravating to annihilate time because I didn’t apperceive if he was traveling to advance me. I was just talking until I could get out of the car. He said, ‘That’s the way it works,’ and he started allotment added women he’s had. He said that’s how all these men in media and backroom plan — everyone’s got their friend. I said, ‘Would I accept to be accompany with anybody else?’ And he said, ‘Well you ability accept to accord a bl--job every already in a while.’ I told him I was traveling to accept to anticipate about this. He said, ‘No, if you don’t do it now, you apperceive that bureau you won’t.’ The next morning I appearance up to get my arrangement and was told the guy I was declared to be affair with was unavailable. Ashamed in New Jersey I got a alarm from Roger Ailes. He said, ‘How’d your affair go?’ I said, ‘Actually he wasn’t accessible and I’m acquisitive to apprehend ashamed from him.’ He said, ‘Ah, well, I’m abiding you will. Accept you afflicted your apperception yet?’ I said, ‘I’ll accept to pass, Roger. I’m affiliated and absolutely committed to my husband. No offense.’ He said, ‘Well, we’ll be in touch.’ And that was that. A brace weeks later, I alleged a acquaintance who was actual top up in the RNC and I asked him what happened. He said, ‘Word went out you weren’t to be hired.’
Marsha Callahan, 73
Former model
This was either ’68 or ’67. At the time he was bearing The Mike Douglas Show, and I had a alarm from my clay bureau about the show. I got a alarm anon from Roger allurement me to appear down and to accomplish abiding I wore a accolade belt and stockings. This was appropriate afterwards pantyhose came into use, and I said, ‘Why would you wish me to do that instead of pantyhose?’ He said, ‘If your legs attending acceptable in a accolade belt, I’ll apperceive you accept abundant legs.’ So I go into his arrangement and appropriate abroad he says, ‘Sit on the daybed and lift your brim up.’ I had to do these altered poses. And then, I anamnesis actual clearly, he said he’d put me on the appearance but I bare to go to bed with him. I was a absolutely shy girl, but I was a little bold so I said, ‘Oh yeah, you and who else?’ And he said, ‘Only me and a few of my baddest friends.’ I said, ‘Well, if you anticipate I accept brilliant superior and you can accomplish money off my looks, I don’t anticipate it’d amount if I went to bed with you or not.’ And he said, ‘Oh, appealing girls like you are a dime a dozen.’ The account concluded quickly. I was alleged in to do the appearance and I bethink casual Roger in the hallway. He affected not to apperceive who I was.
Susan*, 66
Former model
I was 16 years old active in Radnor, Pennsylvania. I was beatific over for a walk-on allotment on The Mike Douglas Appearance in the winter of 1967. It was 6:30 in the black and the abode was absolutely closing up. Ailes took me into this big arrangement and bound the aperture with a key. He reclined on a couch in a basement breadth beneath a map that had flags of all the cities they were amalgamated in. He proceeded to cull down his pants and actual calculating cull out his genitals and said, “Kiss them.” And they were red like raw hamburger. He was appealing anxiously dressed, with continued white shirttails advancing out. It was like he was just at the end of a continued day and I was declared to apperceive what to do. I was a kid, I’d never apparent a man’s genitalia before. I jumped up, but the aperture is bound and nobody’s out there. He chased me about the arrangement and at some point it dawned on him that this just wasn’t traveling to happen. He assuredly pulled up his trousers. He was actual affronted and rushed over to his desk, pulled accessible a aperture and had a reel-to-reel band recorder going. He said to me, ‘Don’t acquaint anybody about this. I’ve got it all on tape.’ I anticipate he knew I was sixteen.
Jane*, 62
Former model/actress
It was about 1984; I was about 30. I had just accustomed in New York. My abettor was acquisitive to get me into broadcasting. I had an arrangement with Ailes. He had a camera set up and a little board and a Software for me. It was a affable affectionate of thing, talking about aliment and what not. Afterwards he taped me, he bound the aperture and said he didn’t wish any interruptions. I ample out appealing bound there was no job and this was just ruse. He pulled out a accolade belt and stockings and told me to put them on. I was actual nervous; I didn’t apperceive what to do. He was continuing there and I put them on. He capital me to archetypal them for him. Afterwards that, something animal took place, but I blocked it out of my mind. I don’t apperceive if I affianced with him orally or he affianced with himself. I acquainted I was getting acclimated for his animal satisfaction. I acquainted actual threatened. He capital me to yield the lingerie home for the next time. I said, ‘No acknowledge you, I don’t wish to accumulate it for the next time.’ I larboard and I knew I’d never return. Through the years I acquainted like a abhorrent being because I accustomed this to appear to me and I didn’t just say f--k off and airing out of the room. My bedmate doesn’t even know.
Diane*, 69
Media adviser
This is something I’ve agitated with me and haven’t told anybody. I was just abashed to apprehend about Gretchen’s adventure and see how he’s behaving afterwards 50 years. This was so continued ago. I was in academy accomplishing some clay plan with an bureau in the Philadelphia area. This would accept been backward ’65 or aboriginal ’66; I would accept been 18 or 19 years old. A agglomeration of us girls at the bureau were alleged over to audience for him for some array of absurdity on The Mike Douglas Show. He had a allowance and one by one he would yield us abaft bankrupt doors. If my about-face came I went in and he didn’t decay any time. He affective me and had his easily on me and he affected me to kiss him. If I recoiled he said, ‘Well, you apperceive no girls get a job actuality unless they’re cooperative.’ I just pushed him abroad and ran out of there. He was like, whatever. So, no job for me. He did appoint several of the girls from the group, but I don’t apperceive what they had to do to get the job.
Pat*, 65
Former TV producer
It was 1975. I had a amount in accumulation communications. A academy acquaintance said, ‘Come to New York.’ I got an account with Roger Ailes. I bethink I met him not at some big TV office; it was at his accommodation on Central Park South. I don’t bethink his exact words, but his bulletin was: If you wish to accomplish it in New York City in the TV business, you’re traveling to accept to fuck me, and you’re traveling to do that with anyone I acquaint you to. I was abashed he was traveling to pin me down. He was a big guy and I’m not big at all. He could accept baffled me. I bethink active out of that accommodation like my hair was on blaze and continuing on the sidewalk crying, thinking, What’s that guy anticipate I was, a prostitute? In one additional my dreams were shot. He’s traveling to banish me everywhere, I’ll never get addition interview, I’m not acceptable abundant — all that being a 20-something babe thinks. It wasn’t, that guy’s a son of a b--ch and I should accept kicked him in the balls.
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