Fired Fox News producer Abby Grossberg withdrew one of her lawsuits against her former employer Friday, but her attorney foretold more legal action “in the coming weeks.”
As the cable news network was dealing with its $1.6 billion defamation suit from Dominion Voting Systems, the producer who had worked for both Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo had filed her own suits, one of which was directly tied. In March, Grossberg’s suit which preceded her termination by four days, had asserted she had been manipulated and coerced by Fox News attorneys on how to answer questions during testimony.
Now, The New York Times has reported that Grossberg had withdrawn that from Delaware Superior Court and that she may be intending to refile in a new jurisdiction.
“Fox would be mistaken in viewing our client’s voluntary dismissal of her civil conspiracy claims as a retreat from those claims,” her attorney Parisis G. Filippatos told the Times.
“We have often stated in public,” he added, “that we believe Abby Grossberg’s claims surrounding her coerced testimony in the Dominion case form the essential connective tissue between Fox’s misconduct in that case and the case being adjudicated by Smartmatic in New York, where it is seeking $2.7 billion in damages for very similar misconduct by Fox.”
As reported in March, the lawsuit had said, “Fox News Attorneys acted as agents and at the behest of Fox News to misleadingly coach, manipulate, and coerce Ms. Grossberg to deliver shaded and/or incomplete answers during her sworn deposition testimony, which answers were clearly to her reputational detriment but greatly benefitted Fox News.”
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Because the suit had been withdrawn without prejudice, Grossberg retains the right to refile in another jurisdiction and her attorney expressed that his client intended to do so “in the coming weeks.”
Responding to the report, a Fox News spokeswoman referred the Times to an earlier statement that said, “The assertion that Ms. Grossberg was coached or intimidated into being dishonest during her Dominion deposition is patently false. We will continue to vigorously defend Fox against her unmeritorious legal claims, which are riddled with false allegations against the network and our employees.”
Since her initial suit, Fox News had settled with Dominion for nearly $800 million and ended Tucker Carlson’s programs for which a reason has yet to be disclosed.
Meanwhile, Grossberg’s other suit filed in the Southern District of New York remained in which she alleged the environment working for Carlson was misogynistic and toxic. Days after Carlson was pulled from the air, the former producer appeared on MSBNC where she asserted that she had 90 recordings recovered from devices, though it is unknown if any of those were videos that had since been leaked depicting the former primetime host making comments off the air.
It had also been reported that Grossberg, having worked in the New York City offices of Fox News, never once even met Carlson who filmed his programs from his home studios in Maine and Florida.
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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