Re: Speaking of Fox News - Bill O'Reilly law suit
From: KMitch429 (kmitch429_at_aol.compurple)
Date: 10/18/04
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Date: 18 Oct 2004 16:37:37 GMT
New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com/
I want my life back!
By ALISON GENDAR and NANCY DILLON
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Monday, October 18th, 2004
The woman accusing Fox News host Bill O'Reilly of sexual harassment wants her
life and career back, she told the Daily News yesterday.
Fox News officials ordered "The O'Reilly Factor" associate producer Andrea
Mackris to stay out of the office as they moved to fire her.
Mackris said yesterday she is determined to stay in journalism even as her life
has been upended.
"I love being a journalist. I never expected my life to take this acute left
turn," she told The News yesterday.
Mackris, 33, has not set foot in Fox News since she sued the network's star
commentator on Wednesday, alleging a string of "vile and degrading" sexual
advances.
She said the scandal is an unwelcome detour that has disrupted her life and
career.
"Fox told her not to come in," her lawyer David Ratner confirmed. "She hasn't
been in since we started meeting with Fox."
Mackris did collect her regular paycheck on Thursday, sources said, but Fox has
asked a judge to clear the way for her termination.
"We have asked the court to consider whether the allegations made public by Ms.
Mackris are valid," said Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti. "We have also asked
the court to advise Fox News about the possible termination of Ms. Mackris'
employment. Ms. Mackris is still employed by and on the payroll of Fox News."
In an explicit lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Mackris claims that
O'Reilly subjected her to phone sex against her wishes on three separate
occasions in August and September.
She also contends O'Reilly previously told her to use a vibrator "to blow off
steam," described his "amazing" endowment and recounted dalliances at a sex
show in Thailand.
O'Reilly, 55, a married father of two, has teamed with Fox to file his own suit
in Nassau County. He accuses Mackris and her lawyers of a politically motivated
scheme to extort $60 million in "blood money."
He called Wednesday "the worst day of my life."
Mackris and her attorneys later updated their suit to charge that O'Reilly's
Nassau complaint amounts to illegal retaliation.
"My logic in not going through the quote-unquote proper channels of Fox News'
legal and Human Resources departments has been borne out in the retaliatory
actions toward me since I came forward," Mackris said yesterday.
O'Reilly's wife, Maureen, meanwhile, kept mum yesterday as she pulled out of
the family's Long Island driveway. "This is a private road," she said.
O'Reilly has hired private security to sit in front of his tony Plandome home.
"He doesn't want anyone on his property," a silver-haired guard said.
(remove purple from up above, never from my life!)
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