Report: FNC Fired Kimberly Guilfoyle For ‘Inappropriate Behavior’

Guilfoyle worked at Fox 2006-2018

Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch appeared to confirm that Kimberly Guilfoyle was fired from Fox News because of "inappropriate behavior," adding weight to previous reports that she was ousted over sexual harassment allegations, according to Insider.

The email from Murdoch was revealed in a trove of private communications between Fox employees that have surfaced as part of Dominion Voting Systems' defamation lawsuit against the network, East Bay Times reported.

In an email, sent in the wake of the 2020 election, the 91-year-old media mogul mistakenly refers to her as "Kimberly Strassel," an opinion writer for the Wall Street Journal, but is clearly referring to Guilfoyle calling her "Don jr's girlfriend." Guilfoyle, 54, has been in a relationship with former President Donald Trump's eldest son since 2018.

In 2020, The New Yorker reported that Guilfoyle, who worked for Fox from 2006 to 2018, was forced out after she faced a sexual harassment accusation from a female assistant. The reports said that Fox had been in the midst of a year-long investigation into the allegation when she left.

Before the reports, it was widely believed that Guilfoyle's exit from Fox was due to her wishing to avoid any potential conflicts of interest arising from her relationship with Donald Trump Jr.

The New Yorker report, based on the complaint and interviews with sources, said that the assistant's allegations included that she was frequently made to work from Guilfoyle's apartment while the Fox host "displayed herself naked" and that Guilfoyle showed her photographs of the genitalia of men she'd had sexual relations with.

The allegation resulted in Fox News agreeing to a $4 million dollar out-of-court settlement, according to the report.