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Fox News Wins Dismissal of Lawsuit From Producer Over Ed Henry Rape

A federal judge found that the network didn't know about the alleged sexual misconduct until Jennifer Eckhart was terminated in 2020. Henry will face a trial scheduled to start in May.

U.S. District Judge Ronnie Abrams on Wednesday dismissed sexual assault, sex trafficking, revenge porn, harassment and retaliation claims from Jennifer Eckhart against the network while allowing the majority of her case against Henry to proceed to trial. Fox News maintained that it couldn’t have known Henry would assault Eckhart, who joined the network in 2013 as an administrative assistant and was promoted to associate producer, because it didn’t learn of his alleged misconduct until years later. “There is no direct evidence that Fox News was aware of Henry’s alleged harassment of Eckhart before it occurred,” wrote Abrams, who noted that she acknowledged that she didn’t tell anyone at the company about their relationship until after she was terminated in 2020.

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