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The former host Julie Stewart-Binks sues Fox, says that the executive director of the FS1 has sexually taught her

The former host Julie Stewart-Binks sues Fox, says that the executive director of the FS1 has sexually taught her

The former Fox Sports anchor and reporter Julie Stewart-Binks filed a lawsuit on Friday at the Supreme Court of Los Angeles, in which she claims that the Vice President of Fox Sports Charlie Dixon attacked her in 2016 when she worked on the web.

According to the complaint, Dixon pushed her against the wall, pinned her hands and forcibly kissed Stewart-Binks in January 2016 after the meeting to discuss the upcoming Super Bowl task. Stewart-Binks claims that she later informed about his behavior of the Fox Human Resources representative, but the network “grossly made a deliberate decision to protect Dixon and allow a sexual predator to remain a FOX contractor for almost a decade.”

A lawsuit against Fox and Dixon follows separate lawsuit Complex at the beginning of this month by Noushin Faraji, a former hairdresser on the web. In this complaint, Faraji claims that Dixon was a loudly birthday party of the collaborator “rubbing her body and rubbing her buttocks” in January 2017.

Dixon did not answer many messages looking for a comment. Fox Sports said in a statement: “These allegations come over eight years ago. At that time, we immediately employed an external company to examine and deal with the case based on their findings. “

Stewart-Binks worked full-time in FS1 from the release of the network in 2013 to 2016. In accordance with the claim, she was assigned to work as a host on a jumping program Jason Whitlock on Super Bowl 2016, when Dixon invited her to A for A Hotel Bar in Marina del Rey, California to discuss this task.

At this meeting, “instead of discussing logistics or his vision of the series, Dixon began to hide Stewart-Binks, saying to her:” You are not funny, interesting or talented, “according to the complaint. After Stewart-Binks told that “she was unable to cope with great moments on television,” Dixon allegedly pointed to the bar and said: “The only way you watched someone watched you, if you got on this belt and He started. “Apparently he also told her:” You are not hot enough to be a hot girl on television. “

Later, Dixon asked Stewart-Binks to come to the hotel room for beer and see the view from his balcony. This caused “notifications” in the mind of Stewart-Binks, according to the complaint, but she felt that he could not refuse him because he was her boss.

In the Dixon room, he asked her to go to the balcony and “quickly pushed her against the wall and pinned her shoulders aside,” as complained. “With her arms heavily refrigeration, and his body pressed to her, Dixon tried to throw his tongue into her mouth.” Stewart-Binks said that her lips remained closed, but this Dixon “ignored her, still pressing her body and licking her closed lips. Keeping one of her arms, he moved the other shoulder before pressing her upper elbow to the wall to her body and her chest. “

She ran to the room and after entering the car she called her friend to reveal what happened. The complaint does not identify that person, referring to him only “an anonymous friend”.

Stewart-Binks claims in the dispute that she is worried about what her rejection for Dixon’s progress would mean for her future on FS1. She decided not to reveal what allegedly happened in the hotel, because she was afraid of losing a job, especially considering that her contract was to renew.

A few days later, Stewart-Binks was in San Francisco, working as a host in Whitlock Super Bowl. At the production meeting on February 4, 2016, the manufacturer told the SHOW team that New England Patriots The short circuit Rob Gronkowski recently revealed that he was once a stripper in college. According to the complaint that the producer and others encouraged Stewart-Binks to apply Gronkowski to make “Magic Mike Moves” for her (reference to the film about exotic dancers from 2012). He was hoping to create a “viral moment”. One producer even handed her dollar bills as a prop.

Stewart-Binks was widely criticized for her role at a featDuring which Gronkowski sat her and covered her hips when she was sitting on the couch.

“Usually Mrs. Stewart-Binks would consider implications of such performance. However, freshly from Dixon’s attack, both physical and verbal, Mrs. Stewart-Binks was determined to prove that she was funny and belonged to the new FS1 regime, “says the complaint. “She had to show Dixon and Fox that she had something that had to be a funny, interesting personality capable of solving large moments on television.”

Dixon and Witriol’s sexual and verbal assault was sent to her after the incident from Gronkowski, “they reached a deep emotional harvest,” as a complaint.

Stewart-Binks was announced next month-marcu 2016-that its contract will not be extended.

According to the complaint, the Fox Human Resources official in June 2017 contacted Stewart-Binks, because this official examined the allegations against Jamie Horowitz, other director of FS1. She said that the HR representative did not matter about Horowitz, but she said what allegedly happened to Dixon. Stewart-Binks states in the complaint that she gave the HR official the names of two FOX employees with whom she revealed her experience with Dixon. These two employees told Stewart-Binks that they had confirmed her account with HR Fox clerk, according to the complaint.

In July 2017, Horowitz was released Author: Fox Sports, but Dixon remained online. The then Sport President Fox Eric Shanks wrote to employees, announcing Horowitz’s exit: “Everyone in Fox Sports, regardless of the role, and we are business, functioning or showing-in-worshios at all to act with respect and compliance with professional behavior. These values ​​are not negotiable. “

Stewart-Binks worked in smaller roles for ESPN, CBC and other stores. He currently runs a podcast with the former NHL Nate Thompson player, works as a reporter for dreams and Phl And he is the brand ambassador and host of the Betrivers buttersbook Network network.

According to the complaint: “Stewart-Binks tried to put everything about Fox behind her and move forward with new positions in the sports industry, but every time she saw a former friend from Fox, who blooms on the national stage, while she remained in smaller markets, error There is a frustration. It wasn’t a life she had imagined. On the other hand, thoughts would appear in her thoughts about how different her life could be if she just had sex with Dixon, but she would close them. To deal with serious emotional stays of what Dixon did her, Mrs. Stewart-Binks was looking for professional help. “

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