Former Fox Sports activities reporter Julie Stewart-Binks levied sexual assault allegations in a lawsuit towards the community on Friday.
Stewart-Binks, 38, filed the lawsuit in Los Angeles, claiming Fox Sports activities government vp Charlie Dixon “pushed her towards a wall, pinned her arms,” and “tried to power his tongue into her mouth” following a January 2016 assembly at a lodge bar, based on a narrative in The Athletic.
In an announcement to The Athletic relating to Stewart-Binks’ claims, a Fox Sports activities spokesperson stated, “These allegations are from over eight years in the past. On the time, we promptly employed a third-party agency to research and addressed the matter primarily based on their findings.”
The story says Stewart-Binks met with Dixon at a lodge in Marina del Rey, Calif. to debate her task for the 2016 Tremendous Bowl, throughout which he allegedly advised her, “You’re not humorous, attention-grabbing or gifted,” and that she was “not able to dealing with massive moments on TV.”
“The one method somebody would watch you is for those who bought on prime of this bar and took your prime off,” he purportedly advised her, including, “You’re not sizzling sufficient to be a sizzling lady on TV.”
Stewart-Binks claims Dixon then pivoted, ordering two beers and urging her to come back to his lodge room to drink them and see the view from his balcony — a suggestion she didn’t really feel she might refuse.
After they stepped out onto the balcony, he “swiftly pushed her towards the wall and pinned her arms to her facet,” and along with his physique pressed towards hers, he tried to kiss Stewart-Binks, she alleges.
Stewart-Binks stated that whereas she didn’t open her mouth, she claims Dixon “ignored her, persevering with to press towards her physique and lick her closed mouth. Whereas protecting one in all her arms pinned, he moved his different arm from urgent her higher elbow towards the wall to her physique and in the direction of her chest.”
She says she fled the room and disclosed the incident to a buddy.
Believing her profession was “very a lot hanging within the steadiness” after her run-in with Dixon — her contract was up for renewal after the Tremendous Bowl — Stewart-Binks turned “decided to show that she was enjoyable and belonged in FS1’s new regime.”
As a part of an FS1 Tremendous Bowl pop-up present, “Jason Whitlock’s Home Celebration By the Bay,” she persuaded Patriots star Rob Gronkowski to give her a lap dance throughout a section that went viral.
“I used to be advised … that I used to be not able to having the ability to do a second like this on tv,” Stewart-Binks stated within the story. “And that I used to be not attention-grabbing, humorous, gifted, good. And so I felt the necessity to show that I used to be all in, and that I used to be not scared to do one thing like (the Gronkowski stunt).”
The next month, her contract was not renewed, ending a four-year run with the community.
Stewart-Binks at present works as a reporter for SNY and the PWHL and a bunch for the BetRivers Sportsbook Community, having gone by roles at networks like ESPN, Barstool Sports activities and CBC.
These allegations come weeks after Fox Sports activities hairstylist Noushin Faraji filed a office misconduct lawsuit towards the corporate, claiming, amongst different issues, Dixon had groped her and fired one other employees member for refusing his sexual advances.