FS1 govt producer of content material Charlie Dixon, who has been accused of sexual battery in two lawsuits by former staff and of sexual assault in one of many lawsuits, is not with Fox Sports activities.
An lawyer for Dixon mentioned in a press release emailed to The Instances late Monday night time that his consumer had been advised by Fox Sports activities “that he was being let go for violating firm coverage” in a matter that had nothing to do with the lawsuits filed in January.
“In response to the community, Mr. Dixon didn’t speak in confidence to human sources or the authorized division {that a} third-party manufacturing firm had employed his spouse as a brief freelancer,” wrote lawyer John Ly, who’s representing Dixon within the separate civil lawsuits filed this yr by former community anchor and reporter Julie Stewart-Binks and hairstylist Noushin Faraji.
“However the actuality is that Mr. Dixon had requested his supervisor in regards to the rent and was advised that there have been no objections.”
Ly added: “It’s noteworthy {that a} Fox spokesperson made no reference to the corporate investigation of sexual harassment claims in asserting Mr. Dixon’s departure. Mr. Dixon has cooperated totally with the investigation and denies partaking in any inappropriate conduct.”
Ly didn’t instantly reply to additional questions from The Instances.
Fox Sports activities, reached by e-mail Tuesday morning, would solely affirm that Dixon is not any lengthy employed by the corporate.
“Charlie Dixon is not with FOX Sports activities,” the community said. “There isn’t any additional remark presently.”
In her lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles County Superior Courtroom on Jan. 31, Stewart-Binks accused Dixon of holding her towards a wall, “forcefully” urgent his physique towards hers and making an attempt “to drive his tongue into her mouth” following a work-related assembly in 2016.
Quickly after the incident, the lawsuit states, Stewart-Binks’ contract with Fox was not renewed. The lawsuit alleges sexual assault and sexual battery as causes of motion towards all defendants, which embody Dixon, Fox Sports activities and its mother or father firm, Fox Corp.
Requested in January in regards to the lawsuit and its allegations, Fox Sports activities emailed a press release: “These allegations are from over eight years in the past. On the time, we promptly employed a third-party agency to analyze and addressed the matter primarily based on their findings.”
Dixon was additionally among the many defendants in Faraji’s lawsuit, which was filed in L.A. County Superior Courtroom in early January. In it, he’s accused of “rubbing her physique and grabbing her buttocks” with out Faraji’s permission at a celebration for an additional Fox Sports activities worker. The lawsuit alleges sexual battery and hostile work surroundings as causes of motion towards Dixon.
