Charlie Dixon, the FOX Sports Executive, who is now being accused twice of sexual battery by two different former employees, is placed with administrative leave according to athletics.
In January, the former FOX Sports hairdresser Noushin Faraji Dixon accused her of groping her at a colleague party in 2017.
Last week, former FOX Sports reporter Julie Stewart-Binks Dixon accused her of asking her to come to his hotel room after a work meeting in 2016, pushing her against a wall, securing her arms and kissing her with violence.
The Athletic published the allegations of Stewart-Binks last Friday and Dixon did not respond to a request for comments at that time. He also did not respond when the athletics asked for further comments on Monday.
Fox, a suspect in the lawsuits of Stewart-Binks' and Faraji, refused to comment on Dixon's work status to athletics.
After publishing the allegations of Stewart-Binks, FOX Sports said in a statement: 'These accusations are more than eight years ago. At the time, we immediately hired an external company to investigate and tackle the case on the basis of their findings. '
Charlie Dixon, a director of FOX Sports, has been placed on administrative leave
In a lawsuit, former Fox stylist Noushin Faraji Dixon accused her of grabbing her at a party
Former Fox Sports reporter Julie Stewart-Binks has accused Dixon of sexual abuse of her
Dixon was hired by Fox in 2015 and started to make its way to the business ladder in the network and became head of the content with FOX Sports and FS1.
The athletic reports that he was expected to be involved this week in the reporting of FS1 about Super Bowl Lix in New Orleans.
The lawsuit of Faraji mentions Fox Corporation and Dixon as defendants, as well as the current host Joy Taylor and former Pundit Skip Bayless.
Much of the lawsuit of Faraji Details, an alleged affair that Taylor had with Dixon and a separate one she reportedly had with colleague -Fox -Gastheer Emmanuel Acho. It also focuses on Bayless – who, according to Faraji, offered her $ 1.5 million for sex.
But the part that concerns Dixon relates to a party in 2017, where she claims that the director touches her buttocks.
When Faraji brought her alleged complaints about sexual harassment by Bayless and Dixon to Taylor, the hairdresser claims that Taylor told her to 'come over'.
In the meantime, Stewart-Binks only focuses on the behavior of Dixon.
Stewart-Binks, a Canadian who had joined FS1 shortly after the network was founded, worked on the show of Jason Whitlock in 2016 prior to Super Bowl 50.
Much of the complaint from Faraji includes Joy Taylor, Skip Bayless and Emmanuel Acho. She claims that after he had been concerned about the concerns of Assault of Bayless and Dixon, Taylor 'agree on it'.
Joy Taylor (left) is sitting next to Emmanuel Acho prior to an FS1 broadcast
Former Fox -Guestheer Skip Bayless, 73, is depicted with his eight -year -old wife, Ernestine Sclafani
Dixon asked Stewart-Binks to meet in a hotel bar in Marina del Rey, California to discuss the assignment before she explained her and would tell her that she was not 'funny, interesting or talented' and that 'the only way someone You would look at if you came on top of this bar and removed your top. '
After the meeting, Dixon invited Stewart-Binks to come to his room, who led 'alerts' in her head. But because he was her boss and she felt she couldn't say no, she went up.
Once in the room, Dixon would have quickly pushed her against the wall and spelled her arms by her side. With her arms powerfully held up and his body against her crowds, Dixon tried to force his tongue into her mouth. '
Stewart-Binks says she kept her mouth shut, but Dixon 'ignored her, continued to press her body and lick her closed mouth. As he held one of her arms, he moved his other arm of pressing her upper elbow against the wall against her body and to her chest. '
Stewart-Binks then fled the room and called a friend to explain what was happening. But she decided not to reveal FOX Sports, which took place for fear about her future in the network, especially given her contract would end quickly.
Stewart-Binks says that she later raised the incident in the HR department of FOX, but the network has “seriously made the deliberate decision to protect Dixon and let a sexual predator stay with Fox for almost a decade.”
Days after the incident, Stewart-Binks claimed while working on Whitlock's Super Bowl show in San Francisco, Stewart-Binks encouraged FOX Sports Executives to participate in a 'viral moment' with Rob Gronkowski, who recently admitted that the A stripper was at the university.
Producers would have encouraged her to get the legendary New England Patriots tight to do some 'magic Mike Moves' and even give her dollar bills to give him while he performed.
Stewart-Binks worked at FS1 of 2013-2016 before the network did not extend its contract
The lawsuit claims that FOX Sports Executives has encouraged her to participate in a 'viral moment' with Rob Gronkowski, who recently admitted that it was a stripper at the university, at the Jason Whitlock show in 2016
With a smiling Whitlock, Gronkowski watched live TV on live TV and pushed his body into her face. She was criticized at the time because of her role in the stunt.
Normally, Mrs. Stewart-Binks would have considered the implications of such a performance. Vers van Dixon's attack, both physically and verbally, was determined to prove that she was fun and belonged to the new regime of FS1, “the complaint is.
“She had to show Dixon and Fox that she needed what was needed to be a fun, interesting personality that was able to process big moments on TV.”
A month after the Super Bowl, in March 2016, Stewart-Binks was told that FOX Sports would not give her a new contract.
A year later, in June 2017, a FOX HR officer then contacted Stewart-Binks with regard to a study of Jamie Horowitz, another FS1 director.
While she told that she had nothing to share about Horowitz, Stewart-Binks inquired the HR officer about the incidents with Dixon. She also gave the names of two FOX employees she had told and they confirmed her version of events.
Horowitz was fired by FOX Sports in July 2017, but Dixon kept his job at the network, while the then Fox Sport President Eric Shanks told employees that 'everyone at FOX Sports should act with respect at all times and adhere to professional behavior. These values ​​are non-negotiable. '
Stewart-Binks organizes a podcast with former NHL player Nate Thompson and reports for Sny
Stewart-Binks added in the court case that 'a pang of frustration remained' when she would see former Fox colleagues flourishing while she was stuck over smaller markets.
She then went to cover positions at ESPN and CBC. Now she is organizing a podcast with former NHL player Nate Thompson and works as a reporter at Sny.
“This was not the life she had suggested for herself,” the court case went on. 'In her thoughts would come in her mind about how different her life could have been if she had just had sex with Dixon, but she would close them.
“To cope with the serious emotional toll of what Dixon had taken on her, Mrs. Stewart-Binks sought professional help.”
