Fox Sports rocked by fresh lawsuit as executive Charlie Dixon is called a 'sexual predator'... weeks after Joy Taylor and Skip Bayless allegations

Fox Sports enforcement Charlie Dixon has been labelled a 'sexual predator' successful a caller suit that claims helium assaulted a newsman successful 2016.

It comes just weeks aft Dixon, an enforcement vice president successful complaint of contented astatine FS1 and FS2, was named successful the bombshell ailment against Fox that besides included Skip Bayless and Joy Taylor.

Now Dixon has been accused of sexually assaulting erstwhile Fox Sports anchor and newsman Julie Stewart-Binks, 38, successful a suit filed connected Friday successful Los Angeles County Superior Court.

It's alleged that Dixon pushed Stewart-Binks up against a wall, held her arms determination and forcibly kissed her successful January 2016 erstwhile they met astatine a edifice barroom successful California to sermon plans for the Super Bowl. 

Stewart-Binks claims she raised the incidental with Fox's HR section but the web 'egregiously made the deliberate determination to support Dixon and let a intersexual predator to stay an enforcement astatine Fox for astir a decade.'

In a connection provided to The Athletic, Fox said: 'These allegations are from implicit 8 years ago. At the time, we promptly hired a third-party steadfast to analyse and addressed the substance based connected their findings.'

Stewart-Binks, who worked astatine FS1 from 2013 to 2016, was fixed a relation connected Jason Whitlock's amusement for the 2016 Super Bowl betwixt the Denver Broncos and Carolina Panthers successful Santa Clara.

Dixon asked Stewart-Binks to conscionable successful a edifice barroom successful Marina Del Rey, California to sermon the duty earlier berating her and allegedly telling her she wasn't 'funny, absorbing oregon talented' and that 'the lone mode idiosyncratic would ticker you is if you got connected apical of this barroom and took your apical off.'

After the meeting, Dixon invited Stewart-Binks to travel up to his room, which sparked 'alerts' successful her mind. But, due to the fact that helium was her brag and she felt she couldn't accidental no, she went up.

Once successful the room, Dixon is said to person 'swiftly pushed her against the partition and pinned her arms to her side. With her arms forcefully held down and his assemblage pressed against hers, Dixon tried to unit his lingua into her mouth.'

Stewart-Binks says she kept her rima unopen but Dixon 'ignored her, continuing to property against her assemblage and lick her closed mouth. While keeping 1 of her arms pinned, helium moved his different limb from pressing her precocious elbow against the partition to her assemblage and towards her chest.'

Stewart-Binks past fled the country and called a person to explicate what happened. But she decided against disclosing to Fox Sports what took spot amid fears implicit her aboriginal astatine the network, peculiarly fixed her declaration was owed to expire soon. 

Days later, portion moving connected Whitlock's Super Bowl amusement successful San Francisco, Stewart-Binks claims Fox Sports executives encouraged her to enactment successful a 'viral moment' with Rob Gronkowski, who had precocious admitted to being a stripper successful college. 

Producers are said to person encouraged her to get the legendary New England Patriots choky extremity to bash immoderate 'Magic Mike moves' and adjacent gave her dollar bills to springiness to him portion helium performed.

With a laughing Whitlock watching on, Gronkowski straddled Stewart-Binks connected unrecorded TV and thrusted his assemblage successful her face. She was criticized for her relation successful the stunt astatine the time.

'Ordinarily, Ms. Stewart-Binks would person considered the implications of specified a performance. However, caller disconnected Dixon's assault, some carnal and verbal, Ms. Stewart-Binks was determined to beryllium that she was amusive and belonged successful FS1's caller regime,' the ailment reads.

'She had to amusement Dixon and Fox that she had what it took to beryllium a fun, absorbing property susceptible of handling large moments connected TV.'

A period aft the Super Bowl, successful March 2016, Stewart-Binks was told Fox Sports would not beryllium giving her a caller contract.

A twelvemonth later, successful June 2017, a Fox HR authoritative past contacted Stewart-Binks with regards to an probe into Jamie Horowitz, different FS1 executive. 

While telling them she had thing to stock astir Horowitz, Stewart-Binks did pass the HR authoritative astir the incidents with Dixon. She besides gave the names of 2 Fox employees who she had told and they corroborated her mentation of events. 

Horowitz was fired by Fox Sports successful July 2017 but Dixon kept his occupation astatine the web portion then-Fox Sports president Eric Shanks told employees that 'everyone astatine Fox Sports should enactment with respect and adhere to nonrecreational behaviour astatine each times. These values are non-negotiable.'

Stewart-Binks added successful the suit that 'a pang of vexation lingered' erstwhile she would spot erstwhile Fox colleagues thriving portion she was stuck covering smaller markets.

She went connected to clasp positions astatine ESPN and CBC. Now she hosts a podcast with erstwhile NHL subordinate Nate Thompson and works arsenic a newsman astatine SNY. 

'This wasn’t the beingness she had envisioned for herself,' the suit went on. 'Intrusive thoughts would participate her caput connected however antithetic her beingness could person been if she had conscionable had enactment with Dixon, but she would unopen them down.

'To header with the terrible affectional toll of what Dixon had done to her, Ms. Stewart-Binks sought nonrecreational help.'

It is the latest contention to envelop the web aft Dixon, Taylor, Bayless and the Fox Corporation were named successful ex-FS1 stylist Noushin Faraji's suit earlier this month, overmuch of which focuses connected allegations of intersexual harassment, intersexual battery, negligent supervision, retaliation and different hostile workplace issues betwixt 2012 and August of 2024.

Bayless is accused of offering $1.5million to Faraji for sex, portion Dixon is accused of groping the stylist's buttocks.

Faraji besides alleged that Taylor used intersexual relationships with ex-NFL prima co-host Emmanuel Acho and Dixon to further her career.

Glamorous 38-year-old broadcaster Taylor besides allegedly schemed to support her occupation astatine the web by fabricating a intersexual misconduct allegation against Dixon.

Taylor, herself, is accused of dismissing Faraji's complaints astir intersexual harassment against Bayless and Dixon, telling the hairsbreadth stylist to 'get implicit it.'

Fox released a little statement, though Taylor, Bayless, and Acho person remained soundless connected the issue.

'We instrumentality these allegations earnestly and volition let the ineligible process to tally its course,' work the web statement. 'We person nary further remark astatine this time.'