Bill O’Reilly — The Sex Scandal That FOX News Ignored
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Bill O'Reilly was hit with his first sex scandal in 2005 — and the troubled news star covered up his kinky sexual cravings with a vicious attack on his accuser!
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Andrea Mackis, a producer on FOX News "The O'Reilly Factor," made headlines when she filed a $60 million suit accusing O'Reilly and FOX News of sexual harassment. The bombshell lawsuit alleged that O'Reilly had sexually harassed Andrea while talking lewdly in numerous phone conversations, and even allegedly masturbated during several call between them!
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Her shocking claims seemed outrageous at the time — including her account of O'Reilly pressuring her to have phone sex with him and telling her about his sexual adventures, including a threesome with Scandinavian flight attendants. Mackris claimed that Bill even suggested a threesome when he took her and a college friend of hers to dinner in May 2003, saying they should "go to a hotel together and have the time of [their] lives" as he provided sexual "lessons."
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But instead of settling, arrogant O'Reilly responded with his own lawsuit alleging that Mackris was trying to extort O'Reilly and FOX for $60 million. That was followed by vicious personal attacks — including O'Reilly's attorney, Ronald Green, saying Mackris gave herself the nickname "Andrea Mattress" while working as a White House intern under President George H. W. Bush.
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"It speaks volumes to what was going on then," said Green — although a friend of Andrea's was quick to insist that "Andrea gave herself that nickname when she was six years old. She also called herself 'Andrea Macoroni'...she told all that to O'Reilly during a friendly conversation!"
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O'Reilly's camp also sent out word that Mackris was in debt for close to $100,000 — but, once again, Andrea's supporters challenged the claim. "If money was her only motivation," said the insider, "Andrea would have taken what friends at Fox have told me was a $4 million settlement O'Reilly offered her out of his own pocket." The producer had her own response, too, claiming to have tape recordings of O'Reilly at his worst!
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"These are deadly and perhaps even ruinous allegations," said another insider, "and there seems to be no question this all happened on tape." Shortly afterwards, O'Reilly's attacks on Andrea cooled down — and it was soon announced that she had reached a settlement to agree that “no wrongdoing whatsoever” had occurred, with insiders saying that she walked away with close to $9 million!
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Amazingly, O'Reilly (seen here with disgraced FOX boss Roger Ailes) managed to then hold on to his job while other sexual harassment settlements piled up — including one in 2011, and two more in 2016. The National ENQUIRER also learned that O'Reilly had settled an earlier lawsuit filed by a former junior producer in 2002!
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O'Reilly was finally forced to resign from FOX in 2017 amid the network's other sex scandals. Even more women had emerged to charge that the the network had ignored O'Reilly's harassment of fellow employees. It made the settlement of 2005 seem almost minor — back when a FOX employee said that Andrea was finally paid off because executives feared "two other women will soon be coming forward!"
Bill O'Reilly was hit with his first sex scandal in 2005 — and the troubled news star covered up his kinky sexual cravings with a vicious attack on his accuser!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Andrea Mackis, a producer on FOX News "The O'Reilly Factor," made headlines when she filed a $60 million suit accusing O'Reilly and FOX News of sexual harassment. The bombshell lawsuit alleged that O'Reilly had sexually harassed Andrea while talking lewdly in numerous phone conversations, and even allegedly masturbated during several call between them!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Her shocking claims seemed outrageous at the time — including her account of O'Reilly pressuring her to have phone sex with him and telling her about his sexual adventures, including a threesome with Scandinavian flight attendants. Mackris claimed that Bill even suggested a threesome when he took her and a college friend of hers to dinner in May 2003, saying they should "go to a hotel together and have the time of [their] lives" as he provided sexual "lessons."
Photo credit: Getty Images
But instead of settling, arrogant O'Reilly responded with his own lawsuit alleging that Mackris was trying to extort O'Reilly and FOX for $60 million. That was followed by vicious personal attacks — including O'Reilly's attorney, Ronald Green, saying Mackris gave herself the nickname "Andrea Mattress" while working as a White House intern under President George H. W. Bush.
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"It speaks volumes to what was going on then," said Green — although a friend of Andrea's was quick to insist that "Andrea gave herself that nickname when she was six years old. She also called herself 'Andrea Macoroni'...she told all that to O'Reilly during a friendly conversation!"
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O'Reilly's camp also sent out word that Mackris was in debt for close to $100,000 — but, once again, Andrea's supporters challenged the claim. "If money was her only motivation," said the insider, "Andrea would have taken what friends at Fox have told me was a $4 million settlement O'Reilly offered her out of his own pocket." The producer had her own response, too, claiming to have tape recordings of O'Reilly at his worst!
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"These are deadly and perhaps even ruinous allegations," said another insider, "and there seems to be no question this all happened on tape." Shortly afterwards, O'Reilly's attacks on Andrea cooled down — and it was soon announced that she had reached a settlement to agree that “no wrongdoing whatsoever” had occurred, with insiders saying that she walked away with close to $9 million!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Amazingly, O'Reilly (seen here with disgraced FOX boss Roger Ailes) managed to then hold on to his job while other sexual harassment settlements piled up — including one in 2011, and two more in 2016. The National ENQUIRER also learned that O'Reilly had settled an earlier lawsuit filed by a former junior producer in 2002!
Photo credit: Getty Images
O'Reilly was finally forced to resign from FOX in 2017 amid the network's other sex scandals. Even more women had emerged to charge that the the network had ignored O'Reilly's harassment of fellow employees. It made the settlement of 2005 seem almost minor — back when a FOX employee said that Andrea was finally paid off because executives feared "two other women will soon be coming forward!"
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