Fox Fires Producer Whose Suit Says They Made Her Lie

Variety reports:

Fox News cut ties with Abby Grossberg Friday, Variety has learned, after the booker and producer for such hosts as Tucker Carlson and Maria Bartiromo alleged in court filings earlier this week that she was coerced by executives into providing misleading testimony in the $1.6 billion defamation suit that Dominion Voting Systems has levied against the Fox Corp.-backed outlet.

Grossberg, who had worked as a senior booking producer for Bartiromo and head of booking for Carlson, alleged in filings that Fox attorneys worked to “coach, manipulate, and coerce Ms. Grossberg to deliver shaded and/or incomplete answers during her sworn deposition testimony, which answers were clearly to her reputational detriment but greatly benefited Fox News,” according to her Delaware lawsuit.

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Fox News has terminated Abby Grossberg, the booker and producer who alleged in court filings earlier this week she was coerced by executives into providing misleading testimony in the $1.6 billion Dominion Voting defamation suit against Fox Corphttps://t.co/lHsTXQECdu

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