Despite reports Tuesday, his lawyers say Roger Ailes isn’t planning a fast, lucrative exit from Fox News—and will discuss terms for his departure with Rupert Murdoch next week.
Embattled Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes, apparently on the cusp of ending a legendary media career in a whiff of scandal, is negotiating his exit from the top-rated cable network he founded 20 years ago.
“What I can say is there’s a lot of talk going on…at Fox with various people involved,” one of Ailes’s attorneys, Susan Estrich, told The Daily Beast in a phone interview. “Roger hasn’t approved anything yet. Roger and Rupert [Murdoch, executive chairman of Fox News’s parent company, 21st Century Fox] will talk. Rupert is due back in town [New York] next week.”
The 76-year-old Ailes—who created the conservative-friendly cable network and turned it into a hugely profitable media powerhouse after several years at NBC and a storied career as a Republican political consultant—is poised to step down in the wake of a sensational lawsuit alleging sexual harassment, discrimination and retaliation, filed barely two weeks ago by fired Fox anchor Gretchen Carlson.
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The Financial Times reported that Fox News prime-time stars Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and Greta Van Susteren have clauses in their contracts that would permit them to follow Ailes to the exit.
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BREAKING: Fox News confirms to @TheLloydGrove that Roger Ailes has been fired https://t.co/b5OSAeU4SL
— Justin Miller (@justinjm1) July 19, 2016
Hilarious that Ailes' lawyer is notorious Democrat Susan Estrich. And this is from Rupert Murdoch's newspaper. https://t.co/CfGO7zjsV4
— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) July 20, 2016
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