O’Reilly Settled New Harassment Claims, Then Fox Renewed His Contract
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Date: 2017-10-22

O’Reilly Settled New Harassment Claims, Then Fox Renewed His Contract
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In January, the Fox News host was said to have agreed to a $32 million settlement with a former network analyst, the largest of his known payouts.
CNN Breaking News on the former Fox News Anchor Bill Oreilly settled his harrassment Case for $32 million dollars. FOX also renewed his contract one month after the settlement.

Revealed: Bill O'Reilly settled sexual harassment accuser's claims for $32million, just weeks before signing new $100million Fox News contract
Bill O'Reilly agreed to personally pay Lis Wiehl $32million in January this year
Wiehl, a legal analyst, had threatened to sue him over alleged sexual harassment 
When Fox renewed O'Reilly's contract in February, he told them about their agreement
Five other settlements had already been given to women either by O'Reilly or the network over other alleged sexual misconduct 
His settlement to Wiehl was by far the largest and had remained a secret until Saturday when The New York Times published details of it
O'Reilly labeled it a 'smear piece' and released an affidavit sworn by Wiehl when they reached their agreement which retracted the allegations
In April, he was fired by Rupert Murdoch and his sons after those settlements became public 
In total, Fox and O'Reilly have paid a combined $43million to his accusers since 2002 

Last January, six months after Fox News ousted its chairman amid a sexual harassment scandal, the network’s top-rated host at the time, Bill O’Reilly, struck a $32 million agreement with a longtime network analyst to settle new sexual harassment allegations, according to two people briefed on the matter — an extraordinarily large amount for such cases.

Although the deal has not been previously made public, the network’s parent company, 21st Century Fox, acknowledges that it was aware of the woman’s complaints about Mr. O’Reilly. They included allegations of repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of gay pornography and other sexually explicit material to her, according to the people briefed on the matter.

It was at least the sixth agreement — and by far the largest — made by either Mr. O’Reilly or the company to settle harassment allegations against him. Despite that record, 21st Century Fox began contract negotiations with Mr. O’Reilly, and in February granted him a four-year extension that paid $25 million a year.

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