She knew that the agreement contained an NDA because her portion of the settlement was paid in three annual installments to ensure that she did not violate the NDA. Andrea read and signed the settlement agreement. “After several hours of negotiations Kasowitz said that $9 million was the final offer. No one screamed, no one threatened,” he emailed The Daily Beast. Ratner, for his part, offered a different version of their boardroom encounter. I was shaking from head to toe and crying uncontrollably.” I couldn’t comprehend what was happening-that Fox heard the tapes and was doing nothing.
No, I’m not signing.’ I was sobbing and screaming. “I was saying, ‘I’m not doing this, I’m not doing this.
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Ratner “was yelling because I was yelling back at him that Bill wasn’t a victim,” Mackris recalled in a series of exclusive interviews. You didn’t hire us to go to trial, you hired us to make him stop.’”Īn associate producer making $93,000 a year, Mackris was the only woman in a room populated by much more handsomely compensated attorneys representing the defendants: O’Reilly, Fox News, Westwood One (which syndicated O’Reilly’s radio show), Fox News’ then-parent company News Corp., and 20th Century Fox. He said, ‘No one believes you, and you’ll never be hired again, and if you walk out of this room like this, no other lawyers will work with you. Inside Kasowitz’s boardroom, back in 2004, “I was so upset, screaming and crying that I wasn't going to sign it, that I wanted to go to trial, so Ben said, ‘Can we clear the room and have David speak to Andrea,’” Mackris, now 50, told The Daily Beast-the first time she has spoken publicly about a crucible that ended her career in television journalism, indeed any career prospects at all, and continues to consume her daily life almost two decades later. “Here was my boss, a man who held my career and future in his hands, acknowledging that he knew I’d never consented but he didn’t care,” Mackris tells The Daily Beast. “I’m going to make you play," O’Reilly would tell Mackris. Today, Mackris recalls to The Daily Beast for the first time intimate and graphic details of O'Reilly’s alleged harassment, including lewd, menacing telephone calls and conversations in which she says he forced her to listen to his sexual fantasies about her. They included unwelcome demands for phone sex and mutual masturbation, as well as O’Reilly’s infamous alleged fantasy of soaping her down in the shower with either a “loofah” or a “falafel thing.” Backed up by audio recordings of O’Reilly’s late-night phone calls, the suit detailed the Fox News star’s persistent and menacing verbal assaults during her nearly four years of working for him. Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.The money, along with a draconian non-disclosure agreement that Mackris said she has no memory of being shown until more than a decade later, was designed to buy her eternal silence about her headline-making lawsuit’s allegations. "So, if I were Trump, I'd, you know, be down in Honduras or something and take a couple of weeks," O'Reilly added. And the more Trump is in the news cycle, the less the Biden administration Democratic Party's failures are focused on." "See, it's the independent that always make the difference now," he explained. 6 Committee" would release its findings just weeks before election day. "I hope he disappears," O'Reilly stated, "because it doesn't do Republicans any good to have Donald Trump around the midterm elections." "How do you think he factors into this midterm election?" "What do you think his role in the midterms is going to be?" podcaster Charkie Kirk wondered. The longtime Trump ally was asked how the former president could help Republicans win midterm elections. Conservative podcaster Bill O'Reilly, a former Fox News host, said on Monday that he hoped former President Donald Trump "disappears" before the midterm elections.
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