NEW YORK — Fox News can pay one in every of its former producers $12 million to settle her claims that she confronted a discriminatory office and that the community tried to coerce her into giving false testimony in Dominion Inc.’s defamation lawsuit in opposition to the community, her lawyer mentioned Friday.

The payout to Abby Grossberg will settle all litigation that she introduced in opposition to Fox Corp., Fox News Network and her former co-workers, together with former Fox host Tucker Carlson.

The settlement was revealed with the submitting of a “Notice of Voluntary Dismissal” in a lawsuit she had filed this 12 months in Manhattan federal court docket.

Although the discover didn't reference the phrases of the settlement, Grossberg’s lawyer, Parisis G. Filippatos, mentioned in an interview that his consumer will obtain $12 million.

In a press release, Fox News mentioned: “We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation.”

The lawsuit claimed that Fox’s authorized staff “coerced, intimidated, and misinformed” Grossberg throughout preparations for her testimony in a authorized battle between the community and Dominion, an elections expertise firm.

She maintained within the lawsuit that she had acquired “damaging and woefully inferior and inadequate legal representation” in comparison with male counterparts at Fox News and that the expertise had resulted in “irretrievable reputational and emotional harm.”

In April, Fox agreed to pay greater than $787 million to settle a lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems over the community’s airing of false claims following the 2020 presidential election. The settlement was reached shortly earlier than Carlson was anticipated to be referred to as to testify.

Less than every week later, on April 24, Carlson, the community’s hottest character, was fired.

In her lawsuit, Grossberg had asserted that Carlson’s present had a merciless and misogynistic office, and that she had been pressured to offer deceptive testimony within the Dominion case.

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