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Fox News Calls Ex-Anchor Tantaros an 'Opportunist'

30 August 2025

Former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros, embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit against ex-chairman Roger Ailes, challenged him and some current network employees to take lie detector tests.

Tantaros, 37, filed the suit last week in the Supreme Court of the State of NY, claiming she was sexually harassed by former CEO and Chairman Roger Ailes, prime-time host Bill O'Reilly, Fox News contributor and former Sen.

The network says that Tantaros was pulled off the air in April for breaching her contract by not seeking the network's approval to publish her book, which features her in "a submissive and sexualized position" bound in ropes on its cover.

"T$3 antaros is not a victim; she is an opportunist", Fox News said in a motion aimed at compelling Tantaros' claims to arbitration. Parent company 21st Century Fox launched an investigation that turned up other women with similar complaints. Fox News is motioning to keep Tantaros's case out of the courtroom and compel arbitration, as stipulated in her contract.

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Tantaros last week sued the network, its ousted chairman and other top executives, claiming they retaliated after she detailed unwanted sexual advances made by her onetime boss, Roger Ailes. Tantaros, who described Fox in her lawsuit as a "sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, ' said after she complained last spring about Ailes, one of his top deputies, William Shine, warned her that Ailes was a 'very powerful man" and that she 'needed to let this one go'. He has denied those accusations. He added, "If Mr. Shine and his minions are innocent, why do they want this dispute to be resolved in the shadows (with arbitration)?" Not to be outdone by anyone, she contends that she was sexually harassed by an ever-shifting collection of employees at Fox News; she charges that outside counsel retained by 21st Century Fox deliberately ignored her purportedly important harassment story (actually, her lawyer, Joseph C. Cane, Jr., failed to return a telephone call from the law firm, Paul Weiss, retained to conduct the investigation); and she claims retaliation even though she concedes that she has not been terminated and remains on Fox News' payroll.

It also asks of Ailes: "Is there an area of Fox News's offices known as the 'Black Room?'" The question refers to an alleged Fox News program that conducted PR and surveillance operations against enemies of the network.

Questions for Ailes include, "Did you ever ask Ms. Tantaros to turn around for you?", "Did you ever say anything to Ms. Tantaros about how she would look in a bikini?" and "Did you ever ask Ms. Tantaros about the reasons why her relationship with a previous boyfriend had ended?"

Fox News Calls Ex-Anchor Tantaros an 'Opportunist'