Former President Donald Trump‘s CNN lawsuit has been dismissed.
12.07.2023 - 20:41 / variety.com
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor A former Arizona man who claims he had to flee his home after former Fox News host Tucker Carlson deliberately and falsely portrayed him as an undercover FBI agent who launched the January 6, 2020 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, has sued the cable-news outlet for defamation. It is the latest suit from a series of parties who allege Fox News deliberately and with malice broadcast incorrect and damaging accounts about them. Fox Corp., the outlet’s parent, recently paid out $787.5 million to voting-technology firm Dominion Voting Systems over allegations that Fox News deliberately implicated the company in false allegations about the security of the 2020 presidential election, and paid $12 million to a former Fox News producer who alleged she had been hectored into providing false testimony in that matter.
“Fox’s role in creating and disseminating destructive conspiracy theories has already been well documented,” said a lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware on behalf of Ray Epps, the plaintiff. Epps is seeking an unspecified amount in damages. A Fox News spokesperson could not be reached for immediate comment. The suit alleges that Carlson became “fixated” with Epps, promoting the notion that the January 6th attack was a “false flag” operation. On January 11, 2022, Carlson told viewers that Epps was the “central figure” Capito attack, and would also allege claimed that he helped “stage-manage” the insurrection. Other Fox personalities, such as Laura Ingraham and Will Cain, also burnished the storyline, the suit alleges. Epps did attend the rallies outside the U.S. Capitol on January 6. He is captured on video, however, seeking others to enter the Capitol, and,
Former President Donald Trump‘s CNN lawsuit has been dismissed.
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Fox News has settled a lawsuit filed by a former producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight who claimed harassment based on her gender and Jewish religion, and that she was coerced in deposition testimony in the Dominion litgation.
Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Fox News agreed to pay $12 million to Abby Grossberg, a former producer for Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo, who alleged the Fox Corp.-backed outlet had coerced her into providing false testimony in a deposition related to a recent defamation suit levied by Dominion Voting Systems as well as operating a hostile and discriminatory workplace. In her suit, filed in the Southern District of the State of New York earlier this year, Grossberg alleged she was harassed and forced to give inaccurate information in the Dominion matter, which Fox agreed to settle for $787.5 million in April. Parisis G. Filippatos, an attorney for Grossberg, did not respond immediately to a query seeking comment. “We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation,” Fox News said in a statement.