Former Fox Sports press reporter Julie Stewart-Binks implicates a magnate of sexual offense

A previous Fox Sports press reporter and support submitted a claim Friday versus the network and magnate Charlie Dixon, claiming he sexually attacked her after coaxing her approximately his resort space to talk about Super Bowl strategies in 2016 and was later on pressed out of her task for resisting.

Julie Stewart-Binks stated in her issue, submitted in Los Angeles County Superior Court, that she was influenced to speak out after a former hairstylist for Fox Sports submitted a claim onJan 5 claiming a previous host had actually made duplicated undesirable sex-related advancements towards her which Dixon had actually searched her.

Andrew Fegyveresi, a representative for Fox, stated in an e-mail that the insurance claims had actually been attended to.

“These allegations are from over eight years ago,” his email said. “At the time, we promptly hired a third-party firm to investigate and addressed the matter based on their findings.”

Fegyveresi did not react to a demand to specify on what the examination located or exactly how their searchings for were attended to.

The Associated Press does not normally determine those that state they have actually been sexually attacked or based on abuse unless they have actually permitted to determine them. Stewart-Binks’ legal representatives stated she offered the AP authorization to utilize her name.

Stewart-Binks covered football and hockey in Canada and transferred to Los Angeles in 2013 to sign up with the group at Fox Sports 1, the claim stated. She was welcomed to cover the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics as a host and went back to report on the NHL’s Los Angeles Kings, the Stanley Cup playoffs and the united state males’s and females’s nationwide football groups. In the autumn 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 May 2015 and worked with Dixon 2 months later on to be the exec vice head of state of material, the claim stated. “The two had the power to pick and choose who would be on camera for the networks,” the claim stated.

In the build-up to the 2016 Super Bowl, strategies were underway for the program “Jason Whitlock’s House Party By the Bay” and Stewart-Binks was informed she was mosting likely to show up on the program, the claim stated. The evening prior to her conference with the program’s group, she obtained a message from Dixon asking her to fulfill him at his resort, the claim stated.

According to the claim, Dixon informed her they required to speak about the program, and afterwards started scolding her, claiming he really did not desire her mosting likely to the Super Bowl due to the fact that she had not been “funny, interesting or talented.” He stated she had not been “capable of handling big moments on TV” and people would only watch if she got on the bar and took off her top,” the lawsuit said.

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