- Panter accused ex-Fox star of harassing his former girlfriend
- O’Reilly left Fox after settling sexual harassment claims
Bill O’Reilly says he’s had enough.
The one-time star on Fox News sued a former New Jersey politician who claimed in a Facebook post that O’Reilly sexually harassed his then-girlfriend and wanted her to help dig up dirt on another accuser.
O’Reilly is seeking at least $5 million from Michael J. Panter for defamation, according to a summons filed in New York state court Friday.
“There is no way to stop this defamation which has dramatically hurt me and my children,” he wrote on billoreilly.com Thursday. “So now, we will use the courts. I will tolerate no more.”
Panter, a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 2004 to 2008, posted a lengthy message on his Facebook page Tuesday describing how his girlfriend received several late-night calls from O’Reilly, with whom she worked, that “would create tension and make her clearly uncomfortable.”
He said she would also come home…
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