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She was Tucker Carlson’s ‘office mom.’ Now she’s suing

At first, Abby Grossberg thought Fox News would be her big break. When she got a job as the main producer of Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo in 2019, she was responsible for booking guests, meeting newsmakers, and even sitting in on phone calls with President Donald Trump. In 2022, she moved to Tucker Carlson Tonight, where she became head of booking.

But in recent weeks, Grossberg has filed two lawsuits against her former employer. In one suit, filed in Delaware, she alleges that Fox News lawyers bullied her into giving false and misleading testimony in Dominion Voting and that the work environment at was so hostile to women that it triggered a nervous breakdown. She’s now suing for economic, punitive, and emotional-distress damages.

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