Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch fired Donald Trump Jr’s mistress Kimberly Guilfoyle for “inappropriate behavior” in 2018, according to an email that was part of a trove of texts and emails that were recently leaked in Dominion Voting Systems’ lawsuit against Fox News, reports the Mercury News.
Guilfoyle has always denied she was fired from Fox News.
In 2020, the New Yorker noted the lurid allegations made by Guilfoyle’s former assistant (about Guilfoyle) who was paid up to $4 million in a settlement to keep the case out of trial. The article also cited efforts by Guilfoyle to cover up the allegations:
At the time, she was a co-host of the political chat show “The Five.” Media reports suggested that she had been accused of workplace impropriety, including displaying lewd pictures of male genitalia to colleagues, but few additional details of misbehavior emerged. Guilfoyle publicly denied any wrongdoing, and last year a lawyer representing her told The New Yorker that “any suggestion” she had “engaged in misconduct at Fox is patently false.” But, as I reported at the time, shortly after Guilfoyle left her job, Fox secretly paid an undisclosed sum to the assistant, who no longer works at the company. Recently, two well-informed sources told me that Fox, in order to avoid going to trial, had agreed to pay the woman upward of four million dollars.
(Sources: Mercury News, New Yorker, Max Tani/Twitter, Image: )