Skip Bayless Accused Of Disturbing Sexual Harassment

01/05/2025 04:28 PM

Former Fox Sports 1 personality Skip Bayless has been accused of disturbing sexual harassment.

Bayless, who is married, has been accused of sexually harassing a former Fox Sports hairstylist. The former Fox Sports hairstylist has filed a lawsuit against the network. She claims that a network executive used "his position to sexually harass women. The lawsuit also claims that Bayless, 73, "touched her inappropriately and propositioned her for sex."

The former hairstylist, Noushin Faraji, worked at Fox Sports from 2012 up until this past August. She has made several allegations in a 42-page lawsuit that was obtained by Front Office Sports.

Bayless, who left ESPN for Fox Sports 1 in 2016, is one of several people named in the lawsuit.

From the report: 

After starting work on the Undisputed morning show starring Bayless, the suit alleges that he began giving Faraji "lingering hugs and kisses on the cheek while putting his body against hers and pressing against her breasts." The single mother alleges she repeatedly told Bayless she was not interested in him and did not "date at work". She also claims she told Bayless she was suffering from ovarian cancer, after developing issues with her left ovary, in an effort to halt his advances.

Instead, Bayless became more aggressive over the years, according to the suit. He allegedly offered Faraji $1.5 million to have sex with him–and claimed he could "change" her life. The suit also claims Bayless accused Faraji of sleeping with Shannon Sharpe, his co-star on Undisputed.

Bayless, who is no longer on the air at Fox Sports 1, is accused of making unwanted advances at Faraji.

"Approximately one week later, Mr. Bayless made another advance at Ms. Faraji. Ms. Faraji responded: 'Skip, stop, you have a wife.' Mr. Bayless responded: 'Aren't you Muslim? Doesn't your dad have three to four wives?' Ms. Faraji responded that her father was dead, and when Mr. Bayless looked taken aback, she made an excuse to leave," the lawsuit reads.

The former Fox Sports hairstylist claims that she took her complaints several times to Human Resources and Employee Relations departments.

Her lawsuit does not hold back.

"Ms. Faraji brings forth this action because for over a decade at Fox, she was forced to endure a misogynistic, racist, and ableist workplace where executives and talent were allowed to physically and verbally abuse workers with impunity," the suit alleges. "When Ms. Faraji and others came forward to report the wrongdoing, instead of addressing their concerns, Fox retaliated against them while the perpetrators and those who protected them were inexplicably promoted. 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."

Bayless, who lives in California, has been married to his wife, Ernestine, since 2016.