Former FOX television personality Julie Stewart-Binks is reportedly negotiating a potential settlement with the network after she made troubling allegations against an executive in a lawsuit earlier this year.
Stewart-Binks filed a lawsuit on Jan. 31 against FOX and network executive Charlie Dixon alleging that Dixon assaulted her at a hotel in Marina del Rey, Calif., in January 2016. The documents claim that Dixon invited Stewart-Binks to a hotel room and then held her down and tried to forcibly kiss her.
The lawsuit states that Stewart-Binks reported Dixon’s actions to human resources at FOX in 2017 but that the network “egregiously made the deliberate decision to protect Dixon and allow a sexual predator to remain an executive at Fox for nearly a decade.”
According to new documents that were obtained by Michael McCarthy and Ryan Glasspiegel of Front Office Sports, Stewart-Binks and FOX engaged in mediation on April 3. The documents state that the parties have not reached a resolution but are “continuing to engage in settlement discussions with the mediator.”
Stewart-Binks worked at FOX from 2013 through the end of her contract in April 2016. In her 22-page lawsuit, she also mentions the clip that went viral in 2016 in which former New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski gave her a lap dance on live TV. Stewart-Binks said she felt coerced into going along with the act and that she believed her job was on the line because of the way Dixon had criticized her performance.
The lawsuit from Stewart-Binks is one of two that named Dixon, who was placed on leave by Fox in February. Dixon, the executive vice president of content at FOX Sports 1, was also named in a lawsuit this year related to the Joy Taylor scandal.
