Former Fox Sports host Julie Stewart-Binks filed a lawsuit on Friday, Jan. 31 against the network, alleging she was sexually assaulted by network executive Charlie Dixon.
According to The Athletic, Stewart-Binks, 38, filed the complaint in Los Angeles County Superior Court, alleging that Dixon — who was named in a separate sexual misconduct lawsuit against the network earlier this month — sexually assaulted her in 2016 while she was an employee at the network.
Dixon is the executive vice president of content for FS1, and has been in the role since 2015.
According to the Athletic, Stewart-Binks alleged in the complaint that Dixon forcibly kissed her after he pushed her against a wall and pinned down her arms. She says the incident happened after a Jan. 2016 meeting to discuss the Super Bowl.
Stewart-Binks claimed in her complaint, per the Athletic, that after she reported the incident to a human resources representative at Fox, the network “egregiously made the deliberate decision to protect Dixon and allow a sexual predator to remain an executive at Fox for nearly a decade.”
Dixon allegedly pinned Stewart-Binks down and forcibly kissed her on a second occasion during a work trip, the complaint said, according to the Athletic. Stewart-Binks said she felt she was unable to refuse an invitation to Dixon’s hotel room, where he allegedly offered a beer and to see the view.
Once she met up with the network executive, he allegedly “pushed her against the wall and pinned her arms to her side” before he “tried to force his tongue into her mouth,” the Athletic reported.
“While keeping one of her arms pinned, he moved his other arms from pressing her upper elbow against the wall to her body and towards her chest,” the complaint reportedly claimed.
PEOPLE has reached out to Fox Sports for comment.
Stewart-Binks left Fox Sports in 2016. She has also worked at ESPN, Barstool and Fubo.
Dixon, meanwhile, was named in a separate lawsuit filed on Jan. 3 by a former hair stylist for the network, Noushin Faraji, alleging that host Skip Bayless offered her $1.5 million to have sex with her, among other “inappropriate comments.”
The documents filed by Faraji accused Dixon of “grabbing her buttocks” at a co-workers birthday party at Pearl’s Rooftop in West Hollywood on Jan. 14, 2017.
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The complaint stated, “As Ms. Faraji was standing near the bar, facing the crowd, Mr. Dixon approached her. He asked the bartender for a drink and then placed his arm on Ms. Faraji’s lower back. He asked how she was doing, if she was having fun and if she wanted a tequila shot.”
“Ms. Faraji felt very uncomfortable by his unsolicited touching and responded: ‘No, thank you.’ Mr. Dixon then moved his hand lower and started rubbing her body and grabbing her buttocks. Ms. Faraji was mortified but quickly thought to fake an incoming call to escape from the situation,” the filing added.
The complaint also stated that an anonymous female talent member had told Faraji that Dixon said that she “would need to have sex with him if she wanted to renew her contract,” which she refused.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, please contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673) or go to rainn.org.
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