Ex-Fox News Anchor Gretchen Carlson Files Sexual Harassment Suit Against Roger Ailes

Sues network co-founder and CEO

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Eleven-year Fox News anchor and Miss America 1989 Gretchen Carlson is suing Roger Ailes, the co-founder and CEO of the top-ranked news network, for sexual harassment.

Carlson, whose employment ended June 23 at the culmination of her contract, said her termination followed years of verbal harassment and claims of a hostile work environment. The lawsuit, filed this morning in the Superior Court of New Jersey in Bergen County, claims that Ailes called the anchor a "man hater" and saw everything as if it "only rains on women."

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