Murdochs' Sky bid isn't the slam dunk it looked a month ago | Nils Pratley Read moreHughes’s lawsuit names 21st Century Fox, Fox News and Payne among the defendants, adding to the sexual and racial harassment scandal facing the Murdochs at Fox. Hughes alleged that Payne “pressured his way” into her hotel room in New York in July 2013 for a “private discussion” and then sexually assaulted and raped her. Fox and Payne vigorously deny the allegations against him. Hughes claims that after she approached Fox lawyers about the alleged assault she was blacklisted and no longer appeared on network shows, which potentially cost her a job in the Trump administration. He said: “Fox cannot spin its way out of this crisis – especially when only Fox is to blame for what happened.

Source: The Guardian September 19, 2017 15:02 UTC