--- title: Fox News Calls Andrea Tantaros an 'Opportunist' description: Fox News sharply responded to former employee Andrea Tantaros' sexual harassment lawsuit on Monday canonical: https://time.com/4472303/andrea-tantaros-sexual-harassment/ author: Samantha Cooney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-30T15:00:33.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T09:03:16.122Z og:title: Fox News Says Andrea Tantaros Is an 'Opportunist' og:description: The network says that the former host's sexual harassment claims are 'baseless' og:url: https://time.com/4472303/andrea-tantaros-sexual-harassment/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcdd532dfd5c2c86/6988a34d0a4a2273a59cb008/andrea-tantaros-fox-news-sexual-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1985 og:image:height: 1117 og:image:alt: A Night Of Style & Glamour To Welcome Newlyweds Kim Kardashian And Kris Humphries - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Fox News Says Andrea Tantaros Is an 'Opportunist' twitter:description: The network says that the former host's sexual harassment claims are 'baseless' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcdd532dfd5c2c86/6988a34d0a4a2273a59cb008/andrea-tantaros-fox-news-sexual-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Fox News Calls Ailes Accuser Andrea Tantaros An 'Opportunist' > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) NEW YORK, NY - AUGUST 31: Fox News Anchor Andrea Tantaros attends A Night of Style & Glamour to welcome newlyweds Kim Kardashian and Kris Humphries at Capitale on August 31, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images) Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images  by [Samantha Cooney](https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/)  ## Samantha Cooney Aug 30, 2016 3:00 PM UTC Fox News sharply responded to [Andrea Tantaros’ sexual harassment lawsuit](http://motto.time.com/4462826/andrea-tantaros-roger-ailes-fox-news-lawsuit/?iid=sr-link1) in legal filings on Monday, saying the former network host “is not a victim; she is an opportunist.” Tantaros, who co-hosted the network’s “Outnumbered” and “The Five,” [filed her suit against](http://motto.time.com/4462826/andrea-tantaros-roger-ailes-fox-news-lawsuit/?iid=sr-link1) Fox News last month, charging that she was taken off the air after she complained of sexual harassment. She also alleged that Fox operated “like a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny.” Tantaro’s claims came after Gretchen Carlson [filed suit](http://motto.time.com/4418080/roger-ailes-megyn-kelly-harassment/?iid=sr-link2) against former Fox New Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes. Fox News responded to Carlson’s suit by opening up an internal investigation into her claims. At least seven other women have publicly accused Ailes of harassment. Ailes [denies](http://time.com/4399965/roger-ailes-sexual-harassment/?iid=sr-link1) the sexual [harassment claims.](http://motto.time.com/4434973/megyn-kelly-eric-trump-ivanka-harassment/?iid=sr-link4) He recently [stepped down](http://time.com/4413767/roger-ailes-fox-news-resigns-rupert-murdoch/?iid=sr-link3) from his post. [_Follow Motto on Facebook._](https://www.facebook.com/mottoworkplaylive/) But Fox said in a filing in New York State Supreme Court on Monday that Tantaros’ lawsuit is “baseless” and “filled with falsehoods,” and asked the court to send her suit to arbitration. Fox says Tantaros was taken off the air because she breached her contract by publishing a book without seeking the network’s approval. “Over the last few weeks, 21st Century Fox (Fox News’ parent company) has made clear its commitment to providing a safe and dignified workplace at Fox News: by immediately launching an investigation in which women were encouraged to report their experiences under conditions of confidentiality, and by committing to make things right with those women who were not treated with the respect that they and every employee deserve,” lawyers for Fox said [in the filing](https://www.buzzfeed.com/kyleblaine/fox-news-says-andrea-tantaros-is-not-a-victim-she-is-an-oppo?utm%5Fterm=.xn388QlP7#.evwPPx7gX). “Tantaros’s unverified complaint of August 22 in this Court bears all the hallmarks of the wannabe’: she claims now that she too was victimized by Roger Ailes, when, in fact, contrary to her pleading, she never complained of any such conduct in the course of an investigation months ago.” Tantaros said [through a lawyer on Monday](https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/andrea-tantaros-wants-ailes-bill-oreilly-to-take-lie-detector-test-challenge/2016/08/29/2f1ad350-6e28-11e6-8533-6b0b0ded0253%5Fstory.html), before the filing was made public, that she would take a lie detector test if the defendants named in her suit—which named Ailes, current Fox News co-president Bill Shine, and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly—also submitted to such a test. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4472303/andrea-tantaros-sexual-harassment/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4472303/andrea-tantaros-sexual-harassment/"},"headline":"Fox News Calls Ailes Accuser Andrea Tantaros An 'Opportunist'","datePublished":"2016-08-30T15:00:33.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T09:03:16.122Z","description":"The network says that the former host's sexual harassment claims are 'baseless'","url":"https://time.com/4472303/andrea-tantaros-sexual-harassment/","keywords":["motto"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcdd532dfd5c2c86/6988a34d0a4a2273a59cb008/andrea-tantaros-fox-news-sexual-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Cooney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-cooney/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdcdd532dfd5c2c86/6988a34d0a4a2273a59cb008/andrea-tantaros-fox-news-sexual-harassment.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"A Night Of Style & Glamour To Welcome Newlyweds Kim Kardashian And Kris Humphries - Arrivals","caption":"A Night Of Style & Glamour To Welcome Newlyweds Kim Kardashian And Kris Humphries - Arrivals","creditText":"Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/motto/","name":"motto"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4472303/andrea-tantaros-sexual-harassment/","name":"Fox News Calls Ailes Accuser Andrea Tantaros An 'Opportunist'"}}]}] ```