Vanity Fair’s Sarah Ellison has some new scoop about Roger Ailes’ departure from Fox News Channel last month.
Ellison’s story is mostly about how the channel is trying to retain its two biggest stars, Megyn Kelly and Bill O’Reilly, but it also reveals a fascinating nugget about the emptying of Ailes’ office, which is now occupied by interim Fox News CEO Rupert Murdoch: “The wooden door that famously cordoned his office suite from prying eyes was removed. Within, two handguns were discovered—one a Glock, the other a Smith & Wesson—with ammunition for both.”
(“Roger has a permit for those two guns,” Ailes’s attorney, Susan Estrich, told me, adding that her client has a license to carry a handgun in New York, “for his personal protection.” She continued: “Those guns are licensed and appropriate.”)
Advertisement