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Network: Axed bigshot who’s suing us is a pig

A FORMER Fox Sports executive who claimed he was fired due to anti-Semitism at the network was a horndog who harassed subordinates, a new lawsuit charges.

Fox fired back at a lawsuit filed by former executive vice president Cliff Pozner in Manhattan Supreme Court, revealing that the company had conducted an internal investigation about his conduct in 2016 following complaints from two female employees. The inquiry examined “a multitude of allegations of highly inappropriate conduct by Pozner,” the suit says.

Among the examples included in the lawsuit: Pozner talked to one female subordinate about the size of her husband’s privates compared to his, he asked a subordinate to expose herself and repeatedly called on a colleague to spread her legs during a one-onone budget meeting.

Pozner, 53, had argued in his lawsuit, filed in April, that he did not get the same treatment afforded former Fox News Channel CEO Roger Ailes and host Bill O’Reilly when they were accused of sexual harassment — and all because he is Jewish.

“They horribly mischaracterize what he did or did not do,” Pozner’s attorney Neal Brickman said. “In most instances, the statements attributed to Mr. Pozner were actually made by the women and certainly invited and instigated by the women, not Mr. Pozner.”

On Sept. 6, 2016, Pozner was “evasive and defensive” when confronted about the internal investigation, Fox said. Pozner, who was in charge of sales and analytics of sports programming, was fired four days later. He had worked for the company for 22 years.

Fox asked a judge to dismiss Pozner’s suit and award the network damages for his “faithless conduct.”

But Brickman said the network’s hardball tactics just showed that Pozner is still being treated differently than other disgraced higher-ups accused of sexual harassment.

Ailes resigned with a $40 million exit package. O’Reilly reportedly received as much as $25 million on his way out.

“The way Fox is responding is further evidence that he’s being treated differently than other nonJewish executives who engaged in much more heinous activity,” Brickman said.

Brickman said the women who accused Pozner of harassment were taking advantage of Fox’s “newfound vigilance” following revelations about the frat boy atmosphere at the cable news network, and dug up accusations from as much as 15 years ago to avoid an unwanted transfer to another department within Fox.

Fox declined comment.