Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment , but she is not the first. In my biography of the Fox News chief , I included interviews with four women who told me Ailes had used his position of power to make either unwanted sexual advances or inappropriate sexual comments in the office. Bush become president by serving as his chief media strategist. Six of the women agreed to speak with New York publicly for the first time. Two spoke on the record; the others requested anonymity for reasons that include shame and fear of retribution.

Fashion is often likened to armor, but at Fox News under Roger Ailes, it was more often used as a punchline. Bombshell , a new film that chronicles the Ailes resignation and the legal suits brought by Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and two dozen other female staffers at Fox, opens with a doozy. As an impressively uncanny version of Kelly, Charlize Theron walks through a bustling, brightly lit Fox newsroom wearing a too-tight sheath dress in red, white, and blue. The quick-witted, chatty dialogue in Bombshell , written by Charles Randolph of The Big Short , reflects a newsroom where chauvinistic rhetoric was the norm—but the opening lines are soft blows compared to the rest of the movie. Short skirts were required and pants were banned Fox News has refuted this claim in the past and, according to a current Fox spokeswoman, still refutes this claim. Pospisil is one of the only fictional characters in Bombshell , created to represent the young and ambitious, albeit naive women who were sexually harassed and abused by Ailes over the years. The costumes in Bombshell , which were designed by Colleen Atwood and conceptualized by Atwood alongside director Jay Roach and Randolph, are significant in the telling of the story.

Update, July 10, a. In a pattern that has become all too familiar after the allegations against Bill Cosby , at least six more women have come forward to accuse Fox News president Roger Ailes of sexually harassing them. Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson's lawsuit against the media mogul has prompted closer scrutiny of Ailes, most notably accounts of sexual harassment chronicled in Gabriel Sherman's book on him, The Loudest Voice in the Room.

Fox News host Gretchen Carlson may be the highest-profile woman to accuse Roger Ailes of sexual harassment , but she is not the first. In my biography of the Fox News chief , I included interviews with four women who told me Ailes had used his position of power to make either unwanted sexual advances or inappropriate sexual comments in the office. Bush become president by serving as his chief media strategist.