‘ARE YOU ROGER’S WHORE?’
FOX BOOKER’S STUNNING TALES OF SEX WITH AILES
SHE CALLED him Daddy Roger.
A former Fox News Channel booker said she was Roger Ailes’ personal “whore” for more than a decade — until the network executive tired of her and forced her to recruit other young women for him, according to a new report.
“You’re going to find me ‘Roger’s Angels,’ ” Ailes allegedly told Laurie Luhn, who admitted she slept her way up the chain. “You’re going to find me whores.’”
According to New York magazine, Luhn willingly participated in the seamy arrangement, taking every dollar of extra cash along the way, including a $3.15 million severance agreement she signed in 2011 that included iron-clad nondisclosure provisions.
Luhn, 56, said the situation triggered a mental breakdown and a realization she had been victimized like the others at Fox whose accusations forced Ailes out.
“I am reporting sexual harassment,” Luhn told the magazine. “Whether I am a crazy person or not, I am reporting sexual harassment.”
It wasn’t until Ailes resigned this month that Luhn — who at her peak made $250,000 a year as a Fox event planner — went to the lawyers hired by 21st Century Fox to investigate her allegations.
Unlike most of the other women who spoke out publicly following anchor Gretchen Carlson’s lawsuit, Luhn went along because she thought it would advance her career, which it did.
But the price, including cash he left her after each sexual encounter — was too high, she said.
“It was psychological torture,” Luhn said.
Luhn said she met Ailes in 1988 in the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the George H.W. Bush presidential campaign, which Ailes was advising as a media consultant. He eventually brought her to his firm and later to Fox News.
In 1991, she said, she met Ailes at a hotel knowing what to expect. There, she said she danced for him, and after she finished, Ailes told her to get down on her knees and he put his hands on her temples.
“What are you, Laurie?” she said Ailes asked her. “Are you Roger’s whore? Are you Roger’s spy? Come over here.”
Then she performed oral sex on him, a routine that she said would go on for years. “It was always the onmy-knees, hold-my-temples routine,” Luhn said. “There was no affair, no sex, no love.”
By 2006, she said, the phone sex and hotel visits had stopped. Instead, Ailes instructed her to recruit young women for him.
Luhn, given the authority to hire , said she did not set Ailes up with any women for explicit sexual purposes, but she knew they could be exposed to his advances.
“You’re not expected to hire unattractive people,” she said.
When one of the women resisted, Luhn fired her.
Luhn left the network in 2011.