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https://frontofficesports.com/fox-skip-bayless-others-sued-on-14-counts- sexual-battery/

A former Fox Sports hairstylist alleges in a lawsuit that a network
executive used ôhis position to sexually harass women,ö as well as that
Skip Bayless touched her inappropriately and propositioned her for sex.

Noushin Faraji, who says she worked at Fox Sports from 2012 through last August, made a series of allegations in the 42-page lawsuit obtained by
Front Office Sports. Fox, Fox Sports, FS1, FS2, Fox Sports EVP Charlie
Dixon, Bayless, and FS1 host Joy Taylor are listed as defendants in the lawsuit.

In the suit filed Friday in Los Angeles, Faraji alleges that Dixon, the
head of content for FS1, grabbed her buttocks at a birthday party in West Hollywood. When she relayed the encounter to Taylor, the Fox host
allegedly told her to ôget over it,ö according to the suit.

The lawsuit seeks class-action status on behalf of Faraji and other
nonexempt Fox employees working in California over the past four years.
Faraji seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial.

After starting work on the Undisputed morning show starring Bayless, the
suit alleges he began giving Faraji ôlingering hugs and kisses on the
cheek while putting his body against hers and pressing against her
breasts.ö The single mother alleges she repeatedly told Bayless she was
not interested in him and did not ôdate at work.ö She also claims she told Bayless she was suffering from ovarian cancer, after developing issues
with her left ovary, in an effort to halt his advances.

Instead, Bayless became more aggressive over the years, according to the
suit. He allegedly offered Faraji $1.5 million to have sex with himùand
claimed he could ôchangeö her life. The suit also claims Bayless accused
Faraji of sleeping with Shannon Sharpe, his co-star on Undisputed.

As the suit alleges: ôApproximately one week later, Mr. Bayless made
another advance at Ms. Faraji. Ms. Faraji responded: æSkip, stop, you have
a wife.Æ Mr. Bayless responded: æArenÆt you Muslim? DoesnÆt your dad have
three to four wives?Æ Ms. Faraji responded that her father was dead, and
when Mr. Bayless looked taken aback, she made an excuse to leave.ö

During her time at Fox, Faraji alleges she made multiple complaints to the Human Resources and Employee Relations departments.

Meanwhile, the suit alleges Taylor began ôinsulting Ms. Faraji on a
personal and professional levelö after their friendship ended. The suit
also alleges that Taylor mocked the ôEnglishö pronunciation of Faraji, who
is of Persian descent.

ôHer lengthy tenure at Fox Sports and not-so-thinly-veiled references to multiple anonymous witnesses suggests that she may have the receipts to
back up her version of the events,ö said Daniel Wallach, a sports law
attorney and co-host of the podcast Conduct Detrimental. ôJust as
importantly, she contemporaneously raised these issues with co-workers,
which, in the jurorsÆ eyes, could boost the credibility of these claims.ö

ôMs. Faraji brings forth this action because for over a decade at Fox, she
was forced to endure a misogynistic, racist, and ableist workplace where executives and talent were allowed to physically and verbally abuse
workers with impunity,ö the suit alleges. ôWhen Ms. Faraji and others came forward to report the wrongdoing, instead of addressing their concerns,
Fox retaliated against them while the perpetrators and those who protected
them were inexplicably promoted. This case thus represents yet another in
a long line of cases chronicling the toxic culture at Fox, marked by bad
faith promises and repeated failures to address a poisonous and entrenched patriarchy.ö

Fox Sports released the following statement to FOS: ôWe take these
allegations seriously and have no further comment at this time given this pending litigation.ö

Ms. FarajiÆs lawyers did not immediately respond to FOS.

The lawsuit follows a year of major talent changes at FS1, FoxÆs national sports cable network. In August, Bayless left after eight years as the
star of the Undisputed morning show. His former on-air partner, Sharpe,
reached a buyout agreement in 2023 after publicly clashing with Bayless on
the air.

After the cancelation of Undisputed, Dixon and FS1 management revamped the networkÆs weekday studio lineup this year, launching the new Breakfast
Ball and The Facility, while keeping Colin CowherdÆs The Herd and Nick
WrightÆs First Things First in their time slots. The suit clears Cowherd
of wrongdoing, saying ôthroughout her entire tenure at Fox, Mr. Cowherd
was professional and respectful to Ms. Faraji and her coworkers.ö

While not named as defendants, the suit notes that Mark Silverman,
president and chief operating officer of Fox Sports, and Eric Shanks,
chief executive officer and executive producer of Fox Sports, could be
added to the legal action based on discovery.

In 2007, makeup artist Rita Ragone sued ESPN, alleging she was sexually harassed by host Jay Crawford and panelist Woody Paige on the former Cold
Pizza morning show.

In 2017, Jami Cantor, a wardrobe stylist who worked at NFL Network for a decade, claimed in a lawsuit against the NFL-owned outlet that Warren
Sapp, Donovan McNabb, Eric Davis, and others sexually harassed her. The
former players listed in the lawsuit were fired from their positions at
NFL Network before a settlement was reached with Cantor.

In 2019, ESPN also reached a settlement with former on-air personality
Adrienne Lawrence, who alleged she was the victim of unwanted advances
from male employees. She also claimed her male ESPN colleagues openly
watched pornography and kept ôscorecardsö of female employees targeted for
sex.


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