A longtime hairdresser at Fox Sports activities has sued the corporate, alleging that she was fired after elevating a sequence of considerations about office misconduct, and after repeatedly refusing to have intercourse with host Skip Bayless.

The plaintiff, Noushin Faraji, alleges within the go well with that she declined Bayless’ supply of $1.5 million to have intercourse with him. He later angrily accused her of sleeping along with his “archrival” and co-host Shannon Sharpe, which she denied, in response to the go well with.

“Mr. Bayless then warned that he doesn’t need her to lose her job over this,” the lawsuit states.

Faraji additionally alleges that the Fox human sources division protected highly effective abusers. She named a number of different defendants in her go well with, together with Charlie Dixon, the chief vp of content material, and Pleasure Taylor, who was the moderator on Bayless and Sharpe’s debate present, “Undisputed.”

The go well with alleges that Taylor was employed as a result of she was having an affair with Dixon. Faraji additionally alleges that Dixon groped her buttocks throughout an workplace party. When she complained about that to Taylor, Taylor informed her to overlook about it, and reminded her that each ladies solely had their jobs due to Dixon, they usually may each lose them, the lawsuit alleges.

In response to the go well with, a Fox spokesperson stated, “We take these allegations severely and don’t have any additional remark presently given this pending litigation.”

The go well with alleges that Bayless made quite a few unrequited advances to Faraji over the course of a number of years. He would kiss Faraji on the cheek and provides her lingering hugs, urgent his physique towards hers. He later turned extra “aggressive and direct,” the go well with alleges, however she declined his advances, saying she didn’t date at work.

The advances culminated in July 2021, when he supplied her $1.5 million to sleep with him, the go well with states. She made an excuse to depart. Per week later, he once more made an advance, and she or he stated, “Skip, cease, you may have a spouse,” the go well with states.

A yr later, Faraji recorded a dialog with Bayless, in response to the go well with, during which he accused her of sleeping with Sharpe. Within the dialog, he allegedly stated that he would hate for Faraji to lose her job, however she couldn’t be “doing a giant factor with my archrival.”

“I’ve love for you, and I’ve for six years, and also you damage me, and you might be ruining this,” he allegedly stated, in response to the go well with.

A yr later, Bayless informed her that Dixon wished to fireside her, however that he had protected her job.

Faraji, who’s Iranian, alleges she was additionally subjected to racial and ethnic discrimination whereas working at Fox.

Bayless left Fox Sports activities final summer time, after eight years with the community. He beforehand labored for a few years at ESPN. He now hosts a weekly podcast, “The Skip Bayless Present.”

The go well with alleges that Faraji was fired for pretextual causes after “Undisputed” was canceled. In keeping with the go well with, her schedule was decreased and she or he was finally terminated, because the community defined it solely wanted one hairdresser for 3 exhibits.

“When Ms. Faraji and others got here ahead to report the wrongdoing, as an alternative of addressing their considerations, Fox retaliated towards them whereas the perpetrators and those that protected them have been inexplicitly (sic) promoted,” the lawsuit states. “This case thus represents yet one more in a protracted line of circumstances chronicling the poisonous tradition at Fox.”

The go well with accuses Bayless and Dixon of sexual battery and sexual harassment. It additionally accuses Fox of harassment, retaliation and wrongful termination, amongst different claims.