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Multiple media outlets reported Sunday that a stylist who used to work at Fox Sports is suing an executive at the network and media personalities Skip Bayless and Pleasure Taylor, alleging they all played a role in creating a work environment. hostile where sexual harassment was frequent.
Noushin Faraji’s attorneys filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles County Court on Friday. She says she worked at Fox Sports from 2012 to August 2024 and, according to the lawsuit, “was forced to endure a misogynistic, racist and ableist workplace where executives and talent were allowed to physically and verbally abuse employees.” workers with impunity.”
Fox Sports and its subsidiaries, FS1 executive vice president of content Charlie Dixon, Bayless and Taylor are listed as defendants in the case.
Dixon allegedly grabbed Faraji’s buttocks during a party, and when Faraji went to Taylor to tell her what had happened, Taylor allegedly told the stylist to “get over it.”
In addition to that encounter, the lawsuit claims that an unnamed employee informed Faraji that she would not keep her job because she did not have sexual relations with Dixon in exchange for a new contract. The lawsuit also notes that the unnamed employee said Dixon “was doing this to other talented women.”
Fox apparently did not fully investigate Dixon’s sexual advances, and Faraji’s lawsuit claims the executive used his position in the workplace to get women to have sex with him.
While working on Bayless’s show, “Undisputed,” Faraji was subjected to repeated sexual advances by Bayless, according to the lawsuit. He tried to stop them by telling Bayless that he potentially had cancer, but the behavior continued.
The lawsuit also claims that Bayless offered Faraji $1.5 million for sex. A week after that proposal, Bayless allegedly made another advance, and Faraji brought up the fact that he has a wife. Bayless then allegedly said, “Aren’t you a Muslim? Doesn’t your father have three or four wives?”
Bayless also accused Faraji of sleeping with his co-host, Shannon Sharpe, according to the lawsuit.
Taylor was apparently “insulting Ms. Faraji on a personal and professional level” after the two stopped being friends.
Faraji seeks an unknown amount of monetary damages and a jury trial in the lawsuit.
–Media at field level
