A lengthytime hairdresser at Fox Sports has sued the company, alleging that she was fired after raising a series of worrys about laborplace wrongdoing, and after repeatedly refusing to have relations with arrange Skip Bayless.
The plaintiff, Noushin Faraji, alleges in the suit that she deteriorated Bayless’ present of $1.5 million to have relations with him. He procrastinateedr angrily accused her of sleeping with his “archrival” and co-arrange Shannon Sharpe, which she denied, according to the suit.
“Mr. Bayless then cautioned that he doesn’t want her to leave out her job over this,” the litigation states.
Faraji also alleges that the Fox human resources department defended mighty misusers. She named cut offal other deffinishants in her suit, including Charlie Dixon, the executive vice pdwellnt of satisfied, and Joy Taylor, who was the moderator on Bayless and Sharpe’s debate show, “Undisputed.”
The suit alleges that Taylor was employd because she was having an afequitable with Dixon. Faraji also alleges that Dixon groped her buttocks during an office birthday party. When she protested about that to Taylor, Taylor telderly her to forget about it, and reminded her that both women only had their jobs because of Dixon, and they could both leave out them, the litigation alleges.
In response to the suit, a Fox spokesperson shelp, “We get these allegations gravely and have no further comment at this time given this pfinishing litigation.”
The suit alleges that Bayless made many unrequited proceeds to Faraji over the course of cut offal years. He would kiss Faraji on the cheek and give her lingering hugs, pressing his body aacquirest hers. He procrastinateedr became more “arrangeile and straightforward,” the suit alleges, but she deteriorated his proceeds, saying she did not date at labor.
The proceeds culminated in July 2021, when he presented her $1.5 million to sleep with him, the suit states. She made an excuse to exit. A week procrastinateedr, he aacquire made an proceed, and she shelp, “Skip, stop, you have a wife,” the suit states.
A year procrastinateedr, Faraji write downed a conversation with Bayless, according to the suit, in which he accused her of sleeping with Sharpe. In the conversation, he allegedly shelp that he would disenjoy for Faraji to leave out her job, but she could not be “doing a huge skinnyg with my archrival.”
“I have adore for you, and I have for six years, and you hurt me, and you are ruining this,” he allegedly shelp, according to the suit.
A year procrastinateedr, Bayless telderly her that Dixon wanted to fire her, but that he had defended her job.
Faraji, who is Iranian, alleges she was also subjected to racial and ethnic prejudice while laboring at Fox.
Bayless left Fox Sports last summer, after eight years with the netlabor. He previously labored for many years at ESPN. He now arranges a weekly podcast, “The Skip Bayless Show.”
The suit alleges that Faraji was fired for pretextual reasons after “Undisputed” was aborted. According to the suit, her schedule was reduced and she was ultimately endd, as the netlabor elucidateed it only necessitateed one hairdresser for three shows.
“When Ms. Faraji and others came forward to alert the wrongdoing, instead of insertressing their worrys, Fox retaliated aacquirest them while the offfinishers and those who defended them were inunambiguously (sic) advertised,” the litigation states. “This case thus recontransients yet another in a lengthy line of cases chronicling the poisonous culture at Fox.”
The suit accuses Bayless and Dixon of relationsual battery and relationsual intimidatoring. It also accuses Fox of intimidatoring, retaliation and unjust termination, among other claims.
