Luhn said she kept going along with it because she felt like she didn’t have any other choice. “Not only ordered to, expected to, and show up, and then say, ‘That was really great, wasn't it?’” she said. Luhn said she went along with it because she was “ordered to.” I was supposed to get in bed with this woman and he was taking pictures… It was pretty rough.” One night in the summer 2005, Luhn said, “He had me meet in a hotel room, and he brought another woman with him. And I actually didn't think that it would go on at Fox, but it did continue.”

And then the next words were, ‘Go over to Double Tree and thank me,’” she said. Luhn said she knew the gratitude he was looking for was “sexual gratitude.” Now, you go put your uniform on and show me some gratitude.” “And afterwards I went in to see Roger, he said, ‘So, see, I told you I'd take care of you some day. She was eventually named director of booking for all of Fox News with a six-figure salary. Luhn says at Fox News her silence and loyalty were rewarded with career advancement. You can't trust anyone else.' So you say that enough times to someone and it's reality.” I'm the only person in the world that you can trust. “I was threatened for many years not to ever discuss any of it with anyone… so I never told a living soul,” Luhn said. When Ailes launched Fox News in 1996, Luhn accepted a job there as a production assistant at Fox News Sunday but she said her secret meetings with Ailes were beginning to feel like psychological torture. I think you're slipping up.’ Or, ‘You haven't had your training lately,’” Luhn said, adding that she understood “training” to mean, “Show up in a hotel room wearing lingerie and be expected to perform oral sex.” “He'd say, ‘I think you need some training. Luhn said that bizarre night became a pattern that continued off and on for more than 20 years. And I'm just going to put it in a safe deposit box just to make sure you stay loyal to me.’” And he would say, ‘This is just my little insurance policy. “It was like the minute it happened I knew that I'd been blackmailed… because he did take photographs of me. “He always let me know he was in control, and it was scary,” Luhn continued. Luhn says he asked her to watch the speech and then come to his hotel room to share her feedback but once there, she says the conversation took an unexpected turn. One night Ailes was in Washington D.C., advising President Bush on a televised speech. Luhn said Ailes offered her work on a freelance basis doing research, but that it became clear that he was interested in more than just her work. If I was looking for a daddy figure,” she said. “I think that he wanted to gauge what kind of a person I was, if I was insecure.

At the meeting, she said, he asked her questions that felt more personal than professional. And I was flattered.”Īfter the Bush campaign ended, Luhn said she was desperate for a job and Ailes invited her for an interview with his firm. I introduced myself to him on the elevator, and then I think later on he ran into me in the hall was super friendly and had acted like he'd remembered me. He was already a powerful Republican media consultant at the time and Luhn saw meeting him as a career opportunity. Bush’s first presidential campaign when she first met Ailes. Luhn said she was a naïve 28-year-old working in a low-level job on former President George H.

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