A former Fox Sports Reporter and anchor filed a lawsuit against the network and top executive Charlie Dixon on Friday, stating that in 2016, he sexually sexually having sex in his hotel room to discuss super bowl plans Harassed and later pushed out of him. Job to fight back.
Julie Stewart-Binks said in her complaint, Los Angeles was filed in the County Superior Court, that she was inspired to speak after a former hairstylist for Fox Sports. And that Dixon caught him.
A Fox spokesperson Andrew Fagivacy said in an email that the claims were addressed.
“These allegations are from eight years ago,” his email said. “At that time, we immediately hired a third-party firm to investigate and address the case based on our findings.”
Fegyveresi did not respond to the request to expand on what the investigation was found or how their findings were addressed.
Associated press usually does not identify people who say they have been sexually harassed or subjected to abuse until they have allowed them to be identified. Stewart-Binks lawyers said that they allowed AP to use their names.
Stewart-Binks covered football and hockey in Canada and went to Los Angeles to join the team in Fox Sports 1 in 2013, the trial said. He was invited to cover the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as a host and returned to report on NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, Stanley Cup playoffs and US men and women’s national football teams. In the 2014 collapse, she was the main sideline reporter for Anahem Duck.
The trial said that Jamie Horovitz became the chairman of Fox Sports in May 2015 and two months later Dixon was hired to be the executive vice -president of the material.
“Both had the power to take and choose who would be on camera for the network,” the trial states.
In the 2016 Super Bowl’s buildup, the show “Jason Wohitalk House Party by the Bay” had plans for the show and Stewart-Binks were told that she would appear in the program, stated in the trial. The night before the meeting with the show’s team, he received a lesson from Dixon, asking him to meet him at his hotel, the trial said.
According to the trial, Dixon told her that she needed to talk about the show and then telling her that she did not want to go to the super bowl because she was “funny, interesting or talented.” He said that she was “not able to handle big moments on TV” and people would only see when she “climbed the bar and took her to the top,” the trial said.
As Stewart-Binks scrambled to come with a response, which would show her talent, Dixon invited her to see the scene from her balcony in her hotel room, the suit said. She agreed, reluctantly. But once on the balcony, Dixon pushed her against the wall, dropped her arms down, pressed her body against her and tried to force her tongue in her mouth, the trial said.
Stewart-Binks pushed him away and ran away from the room, the suit said. The next day he did not say anything about it at the team’s super bowl meeting and was confirmed to appear in the VHILOLD show. However, he was told that he had to face the tight end Ron Gronkovski, which was a stripper in college as a stripper.
She opposed the idea of asking her “Magic Mike” tricks, but after Dixon’s comments before night, she wanted to prove that she could be fun, so she asked for a lap dance, the trial said .
Stewart-Binks said that she had to face immediate backlash from those on social media who said that she was establishing women back through her works.
“After the direction of Fox, Stewart-Binks remained externally silent, although Dixon’s attack and media portrayal took a deep emotional toll about him and left them in a lot of time,” the trial said.
She became public after seeing the trial filed by the former Fox Hair Stylist, who made similar claims. Stewart-Binks’ suit seeks unwarded loss to an emotional crisis and asks that the fox needs to take action to prevent any present or future sexual abuse.
“MS. Stewart-Binks hopes that by demanding justice, and doing so, sports networks will identify the needs of those who abuse those who misuse power and those who protect them,” It has been said in the lawsuit.
Since leaving Fox Sports, Stewart-Binks has worked for several media outlets including ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports and TNT. She was also a reporter for CBC in Canada during the 2024 Paris Olympics coverage.