Conservative Legal Settlements to Coverup Sexual Misconduct

Displaying 10 Scandals
Sorted by When News Broke
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Rep. Van Taylor [R-TX]Engaged in a yearlong extramarital affair with a woman who was formerly married to an ISIS terrorist and paid her $5,000 to keep quiet about it
02 Mar 2022
According to a statement in which he admitted to the affair and announced he was ending his reelection campaign
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Vince McMahon [Conservative Businessman]Had an affair with a WWE employee 35 years younger than him, then doubled her salary to $200k and later paid her $3 million to keep it secret
15 Jan 2022
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Bill O'Reilly [Host]Routinely accosted Fox News producer Andrea Mackris with graphic sexual conversations he initiated during all hours of the night and during work functions, unsuccessfully solicited her and a friend of hers to have group sex, and tried to persuade her to have phone sex with him all after totally ignoring her repeated demands that he stop -- all while he was married -- of which he eventually paid her $9 million to resolve a sexual harassment lawsuit she brought against him
13 Jul 2021
According to a settlement agreement reached between O'Reilly and his accuser
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Kimberly Guilfoyle [Fox News Host]Sexually harassed an assistant of hers so incessantly that she eventually filed a 42-page complaint against Fox News which resulted in them paying her a secret multimillion-dollar settlement
01 Oct 2020
According to an exclusive report by The New Yorker
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State Rep. Jeff Hoover [R-KY]Sexually assaulted his 21-year-old legislative staffer more than 50 times over a three-year period by subjecting her to what she testified as "nearly daily touching" in places including his office, the elevator, hallway, and elsewhere in addition to the multiple times he massaged between her legs while seated next to her at large political functions then secretly settled a lawsuit she filed against him in order to prevent her allegations from becoming public while being married the entire time
16 Jan 2019
According to court records first reported by Louisville Public Media
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RNC Exec Elliott BroidySecretly paid Playboy model Shera Bechard $1.6 million to keep their extramarital affair and details of his alleged abuse and manipulation secret with the help of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen
13 Apr 2018
According to an investigative report by The Wall Street Journal
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Steve WynnCoerced a manicurist who worked at one of his hotels to remove her clothing and have sex with him while also being married then secretly paid her $7.5 million to settle a lawsuit she filed against him
27 Jan 2018
According to an exclusive report by The wall Street Journal
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Rep. Pat Meehan [R-PA]Propositioned an aide who was decades younger than him to become romantically involved and then made her life in the office so miserable after she rebuffed his advances that she quit and sued him for sexual harassment, which resulted in him secretly using taxpayer funds to settle while also being married
20 Jan 2018
According to an exclusive report by The New York Times
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Bill O'Reilly [Host]Unsuccessfully pressured Fox News host Juliet Huddy to have sex with him multiple times -- once he insisted she come up to return something to his hotel room and answered the door only wearing his boxer shorts -- then had Fox News secretly pay her $1.6 million to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit she filed against him and the company
10 Jan 2017
According to a settlement agreement reached between O'Reilly and his accuser
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State Rep. Kevin Garn [R-UT]Got naked with a 15-year-old girl in a hot tub when he was in his late twenties and later paid her $150,000 to keep quiet when he ran for US Congress
12 Mar 2010
According to the woman who went to the media to tell her story and confirmed by Garn