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Rainbow~
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posted October 29, 2004 05:15 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Looks like O'Reilly and Fox paid a tidy sum to the desirable object of O'Reilly's lust....to keep this dirty little secret (about Mr. Clean) from getting any more public....

Kinda like Jacko paid off his first one...(who sez money don't talk..)

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jwhop
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posted October 29, 2004 05:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Really Rainbow? Does your crystal ball tell you who paid whom and how much too?

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Rainbow~
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posted October 29, 2004 05:25 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hey! How did you know about my crystal ball?

...and besides LOGIC tells me the girl didn't shut up for nothin'

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jwhop
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posted October 29, 2004 05:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for jwhop     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
She may have shut up...if she was lying and the tapes of the conversations proved it.

I said before I didn't know who was telling the truth.

I also said if O'Reilly was engaging in that kind of conversations with her I hoped she would relieve him of a lot of money.

I also said I hoped his wife would break the bank in a divorce proceeding.

Nice ball!

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pidaua
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posted October 29, 2004 06:12 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for pidaua     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I am trying to locate the story - this is what I found on Fox News though:

Friday, October 29, 2004

By Bill O'Reilly

Hi, I'm Bill O'Reilly. Thanks for watching us tonight. Before we get to the "Talking Points Memo," I have something very important to tell you. All litigation has ceased in that case that has made me the object of media scorn from coast to coast. Today, lawyers issued a statement saying there was no wrongdoing in the case whatsoever by anyone. Obviously the words "no wrongdoing" are the key.

On a personal note, this matter has caused enormous pain, but I had to protect my family and I did. Some of the media hammered me relentlessly because, as you know, I'm a huge target, as is FOX News. All can I say to you is please, do not believe everything you hear and read.

The good news is that "Factor" viewers and listeners seemed to have given me the benefit of any doubt when some in the media did not. You guys looked out for me and I will never forget it. This brutal ordeal is now officially over and I will never speak of it again.


www.foxnews.com


This is what was on Drudge Report:

By SAMUEL MAULL

NEW YORK (AP) - Fox News Channel television host Bill O'Reilly and a former producer of his talk show have agreed to settle their legal dispute over her allegations of sexual harassment, O'Reilly's lawyer announced Thursday.

Andrea Mackris had claimed O'Reilly made a series of explicit phone calls to her, advised her to use a vibrator and telling her about sexual fantasies involving her.

O'Reilly actually sued Mackris hours before her case was filed Oct. 13. The talk show host said he was fighting an extortion attempt, that Mackris and her lawyer demanded $60 million in "hush money" to make the case quietly go away.

O'Reilly, who's married, is host of the top-rated prime-time cable news program - and he's seen his ratings go up by 30 percent since the case was filed.

O'Reilly's lawyer, Ronald Green, issued a statement Thursday saying both sides "regret that this matter has caused tremendous pain, and they have agreed to settle. All cases and claims have been withdrawn, and all parties have agreed that there was no wrongdoing whatsoever by Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Mackris, or Ms. Mackris' counsel, Benedict P. Morelli & Associates."

Mackris' lawyer did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.

Green's statement also said he and O'Reilly "withdraw any assertion that any extortion by Ms. Mackris, Mr. Morelli" or his law firm occurred.

"Out of respect for their families and privacy, all parties and their representatives have agreed that all information relating to the cases shall remain confidential," Green's statement said.


But I still don't see where he paid millions in a settlement. Obviously some money changed hands, but that is not out of the ordinary in almost 90% of these kinds of cases.

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LibraSparkle
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posted October 29, 2004 06:27 PM           Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Here's something that suggests he paid her between $2 million and $10 million.

O'Reilly reaches settlement with producer who claimed harassment

BY DEREK ROSE, GEORGE RUSH AND NANCY DILLON

New York Daily News


NEW YORK - (KRT) - Bill O'Reilly and the decades-younger producer who claimed he tormented her with unwanted phone sex reached an out-of-court settlement Thursday night - putting a seeming end to an embarrassing sex scandal for the Fox News superstar.

Sources told the New York Daily News that O'Reilly will have to pay Andrea Mackris at least $2 million - and possibly as much as $10 million.

Under the deal, Mackris will drop the sexual harassment suit she filed against the talk-show host and Fox.

O'Reilly and his Fox bosses, in turn, will forget about the extortion suit they filed against Mackris and her lawyer.

"On a personal note, this matter has caused enormous pain, but I had to protect my family and I did," O'Reilly said on Thursday night's edition of "The O'Reilly Factor."

"This brutal ordeal is now officially over and I will never speak of it again," he added.

The terms of the agreement - which came two weeks after the scandal exploded - were confidential.

But Mackris' court filing - accusing her famous boss of pelting her with sleazy phone calls, pestering her for kinky sex and boasting of his sexual prowess - already has been laid out in explicit detail.

On his show, the conservative commentator said he has nothing to be ashamed of.

"Today, lawyers issued a statement saying there was no wrongdoing in the case whatsoever by anyone. Obviously, the words `no wrongdoing' are the key," O'Reilly declared.

"Please do not believe everything you hear and read."

Last night, Mackris, 33, told The News, "All I can say to you guys is it's over and I'm happy that it is."

The settlement came on the eve of a court hearing on the case in Nassau County, which could have brought an airing of more dirty laundry.

O'Reilly lawyer Ronald Green and Mackris lawyer Benedict Morelli declined to discuss the deal, citing the settlement's confidentiality clause.

But legal experts agreed that O'Reilly made the right move.

If any tapes of the alleged sexual harassment exist and were to have been aired publicly, they could have been damning to O'Reilly's career, the lawyers said.

Mackris and her lawyer never confirmed or denied the existence of any recordings.

But excerpts of O'Reilly's alleged advances detailed in her lawsuit included enough lengthy monologues - and "ums" and pauses - to suggest the conversations were taped.

"Had tapes been produced, I think there would have been a significant backlash of public opinion against (O'Reilly)," said prominent New York litigator Peter DeFilippis. "It's one thing to read the words in a lawsuit and another to hear them played over and over again on the radio and TV."

Mackris claimed in her lawsuit that the top-rated Fox personality started making sexual comments to her back in 2001. The harassment escalated when she returned to Fox News this summer after a short stint at CNN, Mackris contends.

She claims his remarks included telling her to use a vibrator, boasting about his sexual conquests and plaguing her with three phone-sex calls in which he told of fantasies involving her - and a loofah sponge.

In a Nassau County suit that beat Mackris to the punch, O'Reilly and Fox News said Mackris and her lawyer tried to extort $60 million in return for her silence.

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© 2004, New York Daily News.

Visit the Daily News online at http://www.nydailynews.com

Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services.

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