October 29, 2004

New York Daily News
Bill O’Reilly, who was accused of forcing phone sex on producer Andrea Mackris, will have to pay the 33-year-old woman at least $2 million and possibly as much as $10 million, reports the Daily News. Under a deal reached on Thursday, Mackris will take the money and drop her sexual harassment suit against Fox News and its star.
> “Some of the media hammered me relentlessly,” says O’Reilly (WP)
> “It’s believed O’Reilly — and O’Reilly alone — paid multimillions” (NYP)
> O’Reilly’s Thursday on-air remarks probably hammered out in talks (LAT)

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