Fox Sports has settled with its former hairstylist who brought a bombshell case against the network alleging unwanted sexual advances by former executive Charlie Dixon and studio host Skip Bayless earlier this year.
According to the court website, Noushin Faraji’s Thursday request to dismiss her individual claims was granted in California Superior Court on Tuesday. Faraji’s suit also included a class action portion that claimed Fox failed to pay minimum wage, which will proceed.
Faraji filed a lawsuit Jan. 3 against Fox, Fox Sports, former EVP Dixon, former Undisputed host Bayless, former FS1 host Joy Taylor, and anonymous members of the company. In her complaint, which was first reported by Front Office Sports, Faraji claimed Dixon grabbed her buttocks, Bayless offered her $1.5 million to have sex with him and made other unwanted advances, and Taylor insulted and discriminated against her. The suit claimed Faraji reported complaints to Human Resources and Employee Relations staff at Fox during her time with the company. “This case thus represents yet another in a long line of cases chronicling the toxic culture at Fox, marked by bad faith promises and repeated failures to address a poisonous and entrenched patriarchy,” the complaint said.
Dixon, Bayless, and Taylor all denied the allegations outlined in Faraji’s suit.
The two sides entered into mediation in March, court documents show. In August, the court rejected Faraji’s initial request to dismiss her case because of the class action element.
Bayless left the network in 2024 after Fox canceled Undisputed. He recently said he would be joining Gilbert Arenas for a new football show. Taylor was one of several Fox Sports talents cut this summer during a shake-up of FS1 programming. And earlier this year, the network fired Dixon, who is also the subject of another January lawsuit brought by former Fox Sports host Julie Stewart-Binks. She claimed Dixon forced himself upon her in 2016 and the network did not take action to punish him after she reported the incident to human resources. Stewart-Binks settled with Fox earlier this summer.
Spokespeople for Fox and Faraji did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The network told The Hollywood Reporter: “We are pleased that this matter has been resolved.”
