News about Roger Ailes

He is best known for his role in a Seventies cult classic that sparked fear into the nation's hearts. Cinemagoers around the world were largely frightened by the film and his portrayal, with perfectly transforming into a psychopathic killer. Since then, he has appeared in a number of sarcastic films and has appeared on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

ANDREW NEIL: This brotherly rivalry will be bloody. James (right) and Lachlan (left) have not spoken for years, and James (left) and Lachlan (left) have not spoken for years. They do not want to be in the same room. Even a meeting over Zoom is impossible. As long as Rupert is still alive, murders will remain muted. However, no one of us is immortal. At 92, he blends moments of lucidity with less animated times. I recently sat next to him at lunch (he was seen as a prospective new Murdoch spouse) but he barely talked to her and the majority of the meal was muttering into his soup.

ANDREW NEIL: Rupert Murdoch, the world's biggest media mogul, has announced that he would step down as the head of the newspaper and television empire, rather than a box. Nobody expected this to be happening, and it took the media world, which likes to believe it is on top of such things. Murdoch will have been tickled. Murdoch and Neil, top and bottom right with his books, center right with Roger Ailes in New York, and bottom left with Sky's multi-channel box.

Harley Quinn, Naomi Lapaglia, Tonya Harding, and several other characters appeared before Margot Robbie as "Barbie." Robbie is unquestionable, and although facing the role of a legendary children's toy isn't on her resume, it's clear she was delighted she took a chance on the role. Robbie talked to Vogue a month before the role's highly awaited July 2023 debut of "Barbie" was released, explaining how playing the role never even crossed her mind. "I never wanted to play Barbie, or was afraid of being Barbie, or something like that," she said. "This is going to sound stupid, but I didn't even think about playing Barbie until years into the project's development."

Kelly, who appeared on her podcast on Tuesday, was responding to an unflattering new portrait of Licht in The Atlantic that outlined internal strife at CNN following his appointment as CEO of the network in April 2022. Kelly, a former Fox News anchor who was later fired by NBC, challenged Licht's programming choices, including promoting Kaitlan Collins to replace Don Lemon's former primetime position, who was fired in April. Licht also claimed that in her self-avowed effort to reimagine CNN as a centrist, fact-focused news group, she was attempting to imitate former Fox News chairman Roger Ailes.

On Monday, Elizabeth Ailes paid tribute to her late husband and former Fox CEO Roger Ailes while still taking a shot at Rupert Murdoch in the process. On Monday morning, Ailes praised her husband's 'heavenly birthday' on Twitter, condemning Rupert Murdoch and his family for wreaking 'fire' at the helm of the media giant's in the six years since his death.

Megyn Kelly and Margot Robbie had a chance meeting in Utah this week, four years after the actress appeared in the film Bombshel l depicting Roger Ailes' sexual assault allegations. Kelly, 52, appeared joyful as she posed with Robbie, 32, who she praised as 'gracious and friendly' during the meeting.

Laurie Luhn, a former Fox News reporter, is speaking out against the network's sexual assault she suffered at the hands of former CEO Roger Ailes as she filed a new lawsuit against the network. Luhn, 60, received more than $3 million in a separation deal from the network after being sexually assaulted and coerced into sexual activities with former CEO Roger Ailes. Under New York's Adult Survivors Act, she brought a new complaint against Fox News and former CEO Bill Shine in January, a statute that was passed in November expanding the statute of limitations for survivors and allowing them to sue suspected criminals regardless of whether it was for a year or not.

After watching the property on FaceTime, a historic townhouse on Manhattan's Upper East Side has sold for $57 million to a buyer in South Africa. The move-in ready home spans 9,200 square feet, excluding two floors below street level, and boasts six bedrooms, service rooms, and a sauna. The off-market sale of the 22-foot-wide house, which took a year to complete due to the buyer's language barrier, was priced in the low-$50 million range, with millions included in the home's furnishings. The buyer is based in South Africa and wanted to wait until the latest renovations were complete before closing.

A judge has ruled that the event planner who was charged with fatally shooting a beloved Broadway singing coach on a New York City street is scheduled to go on trial for murder in October 2023, in spite of her high-profile defense lawyer's apprehensions. Lauren Pazienza, 26, appeared in court on Tuesday for a brief hearing in which Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Felicia Mennin chastised newly retained attorney Arthur Aidila for doing everything she could to delay the trial. He protested, 'I'm not ready to commit to a trial date.' Thousands of hours of research we haven't gone through' "I'm going to give you a trial date and you can tell me at that time whether you're up or not prepared," Mennin said. The judge set trial date for Pazienza, who faces murder charges in the 87-year-old Barbara Gustern's shooting death. In an unprovoked attack in Chelsea on March 10, Pazienza was accused of calling Gustern a 'b-ch' before shoving her to the ground.

Rachel Maddow believes Fox News host Tucker Carlson is 'doing fine right now,' and she wondered about her agents' negotiation at CNN's $10 to $15 million salary range. She also talked to Vanity Fair about how she mentored her and helped her become a success. Maddow flipped cable news upside down earlier this year when she revealed that she would no longer be hosting 'The Rachel Maddow Show' five nights a week, as she had been doing for more than a decade.