Fox Sports Executive Vice-President Charlie Dixon, co-defender of two prosecutions brought last month during which he was accused of sexual blows, was put on administrative leave, said informed sources of the case Athletics.
We are Faraji, a former Fox Sports hairdresser, allegedly alleged up in his complaint that Dixon had fiddled with a colleague party in January 2017. Former anchor and Fox Sports journalist Julie Stewart-Binks allegedly alleged That Dixon asked him to come to his hotel room after a work meeting and pushed her against a wall, pinned his arms and kissed her by force in January 2016.
Dixon did not respond to requests for comments when Athletics The allegations of Stewart-Binks published last Friday. On Monday, he did not immediately respond to new requests. Fox, also defendant of the two prosecutions, refused to comment on the work status of Dixon. In response to the story of Stewart-Binks, Fox Sports said in a statement: “These allegations come from over eight years ago. At the time, we quickly hired a third -party business to investigate and addressed the question according to their conclusions. »»
Dixon joined Fox in 2015 and gradually widened its role in the network, heading for content at Fox Sports and FS1. He had to be involved in the cover of the Super Bowl by FS1 this weekend in New Orleans.
Stewart-Binks declared in an interview and in his complaint that the alleged assault of Dixon followed at the meeting in a hotel bar, which she attended after Dixon explained that he wanted to discuss her Mission to the Super Bowl 2016. Later, he asked her to come to his room to see the view from his balcony, and this is where the alleged assault occurred.
According to his complaint, Stewart-Binks spoke to a Fox human resources representative in 2017 and revealed what Dixon would have told him at this meeting and what happened on the balcony of his hotel room.
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