Fox News said Monday that it had parted ways with legal analyst Andrew Napolitano after a 27-year-old associate producer, John Fawcett, accused him of sexual harassment.
Fawcett, who works on the Fox Business Network show, Kudlow, filed a lawsuit yesterday against Fox that includes the allegation.
He claimed that when he started working at Fox in 2019, he ran into Napolitano on an elevator, who he charged made sexually suggestive comments and stroked his arm. He says he spoke to Fox's chief human resources officer, but he was dismissive of his claim. Fawcett also alleged that show host Larry Kudlow has used ethnic slurs and made sexually inappropriate comments about women in front of staffers, including him, and that Kudlow said no to having Republican Rep. Byron Donalds on the show because he's Black.
Although Fox parted ways with Napolitano, it called Fawcett's other claims "completely baseless" and a "desperate attempt at a payday."
The network’s legal analyst was also accused last year by two men for sexual assault, which Napolitano said was “completely false” — and at the time the network stood by Napolitano.
Separately on Monday, the network rejected Fawcett’s other accusations, including claims of gender-based discrimination as well as accusations that Kudlow frequently made racist and sexist remarks to staffers. “The additional allegations laid out in this claim are completely baseless and nothing more than a desperate attempt at a payday by trying the case in the court of public opinion as the complaint does not meet the standards of the law,” the Fox News statement said. “We will defend the matter vigorously in court.”
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