A previous Fox Sports press reporter and support submitted a claim Friday versus the network and magnate Charlie Dixon, stating he sexually attacked her after coaxing her approximately his resort area to talk about Super Dish intends in 2016 and was later on pressed out of her task for resisting.
Julie Stewart-Binks claimed in her grievance, submitted in Los Angeles Region Superior Court, that she was influenced to speak out after a previous hair stylist for Fox Sports submitted a claim on Jan. 5 stating a previous host had actually made duplicated undesirable sex-related advancements towards her which Dixon had actually searched her.
Andrew Fegyveresi, a speaker for Fox, claimed in an e-mail that the insurance claims had actually been attended to.
” These accusations are from over 8 years back,” his e-mail claimed. “At the time, we without delay employed a third-party company to check out and attended to the issue based upon their searchings for.”
Fegyveresi did not react to a demand to specify on what the examination located or just how their searchings for were attended to.
The Associated Press does not usually recognize those that state they have actually been sexually attacked or based on abuse unless they have actually allowed to recognize them. Stewart-Binks’ attorneys claimed she offered the AP authorization to utilize her name.
Stewart-Binks covered football and hockey in Canada and relocated to Los Angeles in 2013 to sign up with the group at Fox Sports 1, the suit claimed. She was welcomed to cover the 2014 Sochi Winter Months Olympics as a host and went back to report on the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, the Stanley Mug playoffs and the united state males’s and ladies’s nationwide football groups. In the loss of 2014, she was the major sideline press reporter for the Anaheim Ducks.
Jamie Horowitz ended up being head of state of Fox Sports in Might 2015 and employed Dixon 2 months later on to be the exec vice head of state of web content, the suit claimed. “Both had the power to pick that would certainly get on cam for the networks,” the suit claimed.
In the accumulation to the 2016 Super Dish, strategies were underway for the program “Jason Whitlock’s Houseparty By the Bay” and Stewart-Binks was informed she was mosting likely to show up on the program, the suit claimed. The evening prior to her conference with the program’s group, she got a message from Dixon asking her to satisfy him at his resort, the suit claimed.
According to the suit, Dixon informed her they required to discuss the program, and afterwards started scolding her, stating he really did not desire her mosting likely to the Super Dish due to the fact that she had not been “amusing, fascinating or gifted.” He claimed she had not been “with the ability of managing huge minutes on television” and individuals would just enjoy if she jumped on bench and removed her top,” the suit claimed.
As Stewart-Binks clambered to find up with a feedback that would certainly reveal her skill, Dixon welcomed her to his resort area to see the sight from his terrace, the fit claimed. She concurred, unwillingly. Once on the terrace, Dixon pressed her versus the wall surface, selected her arms, pushed his body versus hers and attempted to compel his tongue right into her mouth, the suit said.
Stewart-Binks pressed him away and ranged from the area, the fit claimed. She really did not state anything concerning it at the group’s Super Dish fulfilling the complying with day and she was validated to show up on the Whitlock program. Nevertheless, she was informed that she needed to challenge New England Patriots limited end Ron Gronkowski concerning his job at a pole dancer in university.
She withstood the concept of requesting his “Magic Mike” steps however after Dixon’s remarks the evening previously, she wished to show that she might be enjoyable, so she requested a lap dancing, the suit claimed.
Stewart-Binks claimed she dealt with a prompt reaction on social networks from individuals that claimed she was establishing ladies back with her activities.
” Adhering to Fox’s instructions, Stewart-Binks stayed quiet externally, though Dixon’s attack and the media’s representation of her took an extensive psychological toll and left her in splits a lot of the moment,” the suit claimed.
She just went public after seeing the suit submitted by the previous Fox hair stylist that made comparable insurance claims. Stewart-Binks’ suit looks for undefined problems for psychological distress and asks that Fox be called for to act to stop any type of present or future sexual assault.
” Ms. Stewart-Binks wishes that by looking for justice, and by doing so openly, sporting activities networks will certainly identify the need of freing those that abuse power and those that secure them,” the suit claimed.
Considering that leaving Fox Sports, Stewart-Binks has actually done help numerous media electrical outlets consisting of ESPN, CBS Sports, NBC Sports, and TNT. She additionally was a reporter for the CBC in Canada throughout its protection of the 2024 Paris Olympics.
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AP Sports press reporter Joe Reedy in Los Angeles added to this record.
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