Ex-Fox News anchor Ed Henry is accused of assaulting another female colleague after returning from 'sex addict's camp' in bombshell new court filing

Former Fox News anchor Ed Henry - who was fired implicit intersexual misconduct claims successful 2020 - has been accused of assaulting different colleague after he'd returned from an employer-mandated 'sex addiction rehab program.'

Henry, who has been described arsenic 'Weinstein-esque, but worse,' presently hosts connected show at rival Newsmax and has denied each allegations. The details came to airy arsenic portion of ongoing litigation against the network.

Jennifer Eckhart, a erstwhile subordinate shaper for Fox Business Network, sued Henry successful 2020 alleges that Fox News violated national sex-trafficking laws, saying Fox knew oregon should person known that Henry coerced her into a commercialized enactment act. 

As the lawsuit remains mired successful court, Michael J. Wilemin - Eckhart's lawyer - has filed a 39-page question to effort and artifact Fox's effort to get a summary judgement.

The little contains lurid caller claims of different Fox News staffer was assaulted by Henry contempt respective co-workers informing apical executives astatine the network. 

It besides notes that Fox had antecedently suspended Henry from covering Hillary Clinton's 2016 statesmanlike run aft his alleged matter with a cocktail waitress successful Las Vegas came to airy and aboriginal sent him to enactment addiction rehab.

The suit claims this is impervious Fox 'knew' Henry was a 'significant risk' and 'failed to investigate' past allegations against the anchor and that his issues were not 'a azygous consensual affair' but accordant 'workplace intersexual misconduct.'

After Henry returned from what immoderate described arsenic 'sex addict's camp', an anonymous staffer said she was sexually assaulted by the anchor. 

'Fox News' attraction of Mr. Henry pursuing his instrumentality to the web lone served to embolden him, arsenic helium escalated his abusive attraction of women by not lone raping Ms. Eckhart, but besides sexually assaulting different Fox News colleague,' Willemin wrote.

He besides alleges that the network's Washington bureau helped Henry screen up allegations of sexting portion utilizing a Fox-issued telephone and engaging successful an inappropriate 'sexual relationship' with an further co-worker. 

The then-22-year-old co-worker, who the filing claims was dealing with a 'severe imbalance of power' with her superior Henry, said that helium is simply a 'predator' who coerced her to person enactment successful his office. 

She besides claims helium sent an unsolicited photograph of his penis to the co-worker and claims she told Fox colleagues astir it successful 2016, earlier Henry's suspension oregon Eckhart's allegations. 

Willemin writes that Fox Business anchor Liz Claman told Eckhart successful 2016: 'Everyone astatine Fox News knows that Ed Henry is simply a enactment addict. That's nary secret.' 

He besides cites a erstwhile workfellow astatine CNN, wherever Henry worked until 2011, who posted connected X aft the allegations: 'No accidental @foxnews didn't cognize astir Ed Henry. He was a menace to galore of america connected the comms broadside erstwhile helium was @cnn and everyone talked astir it. Literally truthful so truthful gross.' 

Willemin besides includes a leafage and a fractional of further intersexual misconduct allegations against Fox News employees, immoderate of whom inactive enactment astatine the company.  

The network, arsenic it has previously, repeated its denial of immoderate wrongdoing successful a connection to Mediaite. 

'After having missed their deadline for filing, the lawyers for Ms. Eckhart are present desperately trying to salvage their case. As find successful this substance has confirmed, FOX News was not alert of immoderate narration betwixt Ms. Eckhart and Mr. Henry oregon of immoderate allegations of unwelcome intersexual enactment by Mr. Henry until aft she near the company.'

Willemin responded with a statement, saying: 'As made wide successful today's filings, determination is nary merit to Fox News' oregon Ed Henry's hopeless attempts to extricate themselves from this case.' 

'We firmly judge that Fox News and Mr. Henry are going to beryllium held accountable by a assemblage oregon Ms. Eckhart's peers, and we are precise overmuch looking guardant to pushing this lawsuit to trial.' 

Eckhart posted to her Instagram communicative aft the filing.

'My bosom goes retired to each different pistillate that has suffered astatine the hands of Ed Henry arsenic we person learned successful the find process of this lawsuit that I americium not the lone subsister and Fox News worker helium has groomed and sexually assaulted.'

'I eagerly await my time successful tribunal to formed adjacent much airy connected the immorality of the civilization the web continues to promote, and the countless different survivors that person suffered astatine the hands of axenic evil.  

Henry was fired successful June 2020 aft being investigated by the web for 'willful intersexual misconduct successful the workplace.' 

At the time, Fox News said that erstwhile they heard the allegations, Henry was rapidly fto go.

'Upon archetypal learning of Jennifer Eckhart's allegations successful 2020, Fox News promptly conducted an probe by an extracurricular autarkic instrumentality firm, which resulted successful elder absorption and HR terminating Ed Henry wrong six days,' they said successful a connection astatine the time. 

Eckhart past sued Henry and the web for what she claims was a rape successful 2017.

Her suit besides claimed Henry had targeted her and different women who responded to his advances due to the fact that they disquieted astir their jobs.

Henry yet moved to Real America's Voice, wherever helium was accused of sending a younger staffer a photograph of himself with a stripper, according to The Daily Beast. 

Since 2022, Henry has worked astatine Newsmax.