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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
National
Stephen Battaglio

Former Fox News employee sues over sexual abuse under New York state survivors law

A former Fox News employee who said she was sexually abused by the network's late chief executive Roger Ailes has filed a lawsuit under New York state's Adult Survivors Act.

The suit filed Wednesday in New York State Supreme Court also names 21st Century Fox, the previous moniker for Rupert Murdoch's Fox Corp., and Bill Shine, a top lieutenant of Ailes and former Fox News president who now works for Nexstar Media Group's NewsNation.

Laura Luhn, who worked for 15 years at Fox News, said Ailes used his position "in a decades-long cycle of sexual abuse." The former booker's relationship with Ailes dated back to the early 1990s, before Fox News was launched, the lawsuit says.

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