A Former Fox Sports Reporter and Anchor Filed A Lawsuit Friday Against the Network and Top Executive Charlie Dixon, Saying Hey Sexual Assaulted Her After Coaxing Her Up To His Hotel Room To Discuss Super Bowl Plans and later Pushed Out Of Her Job For Fightinging back.
Julie Stewart-Binks said in her complaint, submitted in Los Angeles County Superior Court, that she was inspired to speak after one Former hairdresser for FOX Sports On January 5, a lawsuit was brought and said that a former host had brought repeated unwanted sexual progress to her and that Dixon had touched her.
Andrew Fegyveresi, a Fox spokesperson, said in an e -mail that the claims had been tackled.
“These allegations are from more than eight years ago,” said his e -mail. “At the time, we immediately hired an external company to investigate and tackle the case based on their findings.”
FeeGyveresi did not respond to a request to work out what the investigation found or how their findings were tackled.
The Associated Press generally does not identify those who say they have been sexually abused or subject to abuse unless they have given permission to identify them. The lawyers of Stewart-Binks said she gave the AP permission to use her name.
Stewart-Binks included football and hockey in Canada and moved to Los Angeles in 2013 to become a member of the team at FOX Sports 1, said the court case. She was invited to host the 2014 Winter Olympics and returned to report on the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL, the Stanley Cup play -offs and the national football teams of the American gentlemen and women. In the fall of 2014 she was the most important secondary reporter for the Anaheim Ducks.
Jamie Horowitz became president of FOX Sports in May 2015 and hired Dixon two months later as the executive president of content, said the court case. “The two had the power to choose and choose who would be on the camera for the networks,” said the court case.
In the construction of the 2016 Super Bowl there were plans for the show “Jason Whitlock’s House Party by the Bay” and Stewart-Binks was told that she would appear on the program, the court case said. The night before her meeting with the show team, she received a SMS from Dixon in which she was asked to meet him in his hotel, the lawsuit said.
According to the court case, Dixon told her that they had to talk about the show, and then started beating her, saying that he didn’t want her to go to the Super Bowl because she was not “funny, interesting or talented”. He said that she was not “able to process big moments on TV” and people would only watch if she stepped at the bar and dropped her top, “said the court case.
While Stewart-Binks are carried away to come up with a reaction that would show her talent, Dixon invited her to his hotel room to see the view from his balcony, the suit said. She reluctantly agreed. But once on the balcony, Dixon pushed her against the wall, pinned her arms, pressed his body against hers and tried to force his tongue in her mouth, the court case said.
Stewart-Binks pushed him away and ran out of the room, said the suit. She said nothing about it during the Super Bowl meeting of the team the next day and she was confirmed that she appeared on the Whitlock show. However, she was told that she had to confront New England Patriots tightly, Ron Gronkowski over his stint on a stripper at the university.
She opposed the idea of asking for his “Magic Mike” movements, but after the comments from Dixon the night before she wanted to prove that she could be fun, so she asked for a piece of cloth, said the court case.
Stewart-Binks said she was confronted with an immediate recoil on social media from people who said they brought back women from her actions.
“After the direction of Fox, Stewart-Binks appeared to be silent outward, although Dixon’s attack and the representation of her of hers demanded an in-depth emotional toll and often left her in tears,” said the court case.
She was only made public after seeing the lawsuit by the former Fox hairdresser who made similar claims. The lawsuit of Stewart-Binks is looking for non-specific damage to emotional need and requires that FOX must be obliged to take action to prevent current or future sexual abuse.
“Madam. Stewart-Binks hopes that by searching for justice, and by doing this publicly, sports networks will acknowledge the need to free those who protect power and those who protect them will acknowledge,” said the court case.
Since leaving FOX Sports, Stewart-Binks has done work for many media, including ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports and TNT. She was also a correspondent for the CBC in Canada during the coverage of the Olympic Games in Paris 2024.
AP Sports Reporter Joe Reedy in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
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