Former Fox Employee Describes ‘Psychological Torture’ From ‘Predator’ Roger Ailes

After former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against former Fox executive Roger Ailes and multiple women have come forward with similar stories, one woman has shared an incredibly detailed and disturbing account of what she says was 20 years of emotional abuse and sexual coercion from Ailes.

Speaking with New York Magazine’s Gabriel Sherman, Laurie Luhn, who previously worked as director of booking at Fox News, recounted Ailes explicitly demanding sex from her in exchange for career advancement and mentorship over the course of two decades. She also described Ailes getting her to arrange meetings with young female Fox staffers in which she knew they would likely be exposed to sexual harassment.

Luhn said that after realizing the candidate she was working for at the time was going to lose, she called Ailes for career help in the fall of 1990. He asked her if she wanted to meet him for an interview while he was in Washington, D.C., and afterward he took her to dinner and then asked her for a ride to the airport. Once they arrived at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, she said, “We pull up and I say, ‘Thank you so much for dinner.’ He leans over and slips me the tongue and kisses me, and hands me a wad of cash. ‘Here’s to help you pay some bills,’ he said. It was maybe $200 or $300.” Later, Ailes offered to put her on a $500 monthly retainer to do “research” for him....
http://thinkprogress.org/culture/2016/07/30/3803512/ailes-harassment-torture/