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Posted: 2023-07-01 03:04:35

Fox News will pay one of its former producers $US12 million ($18 million) to settle her claims that she faced a discriminatory workplace and that the network coerced her into giving false or misleading testimony in Dominion Inc.'s defamation lawsuit, her lawyer says.

The payout to Abby Grossberg will settle all litigation that she brought against Fox Corporation, Fox News Network and her former co-workers, including former Fox host Tucker Carlson.

The settlement was revealed with the filing of a Notice of Voluntary Dismissal in a lawsuit she had brought this year in Manhattan federal court.

The judge accepted the filing and closed the case.

Although the notice did not reference the terms of the settlement, Grossberg's attorney Parisis G. Filippatos said in an interview that his client would receive $US12 million.

"We are pleased that we have been able to resolve this matter without further litigation," Fox News said in a statement.

Grossberg said in a statement that while she stands by claims she made in her Manhattan lawsuit and another lawsuit in the Delaware State Superior Court, she was "heartened that Fox News has taken me and my legal claims seriously."

"I am hopeful, based on our discussions with Fox News today, that this resolution represents a positive step by the Network regarding its treatment of women and minorities in the workplace," she said.

The Manhattan lawsuit claimed that Fox's legal team "coerced, intimidated, and misinformed" Grossberg during preparations for her testimony in a legal battle between the network and Dominion, an elections technology company.

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