Abby Grossberg alleged in the suit that she received harassing emails from Tucker Carlson’s senior staff, and that staff regularly held discussions about women in sexist terms, regularly invoking the term “cunt.”
Grossberg is claiming a Sept. 14 deposition she gave in the Dominion suit was inauthentic given how Fox News was “fraudulently inducing her to deny facts she knew to exist” and otherwise lie about the network was handling warnings from the voting systems company. She is seeking to correct the deposition in light of this alleged coercion.
“Based on what I understood and took away from the deposition preparation sessions I had with Fox’s legal team which were coercive and intimidating … I felt that I had to do everything possible to avoid becoming the ‘star witness’ for Dominion or else I would be seriously jeopardizing my career at Fox News and would be subjected to worse terms and conditions of employment than male employees as I understood it,” Grossberg wrote in the amended complaint, which was filed on Monday.
Grossberg was a producer for Maria Bartiromo’s show in the aftermath of the 2020 election, and moved tolast September. She alleged in the suit last week that she received harassing emails from Carlson’s senior staff, and that staff regularly held discussions about women in sexist terms, regularly invoking the term “cunt.
Grossberg’s lawyers described Grossberg’s firing on Friday was the “latest act of thinly veiled retaliation,”
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