“The sudden passing of Roger Ailes will make it difficult for Fox News to refute the allegations against him as his testimony was<br />not secured by sworn testimony to date,” said Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer who represents 21 current and former Fox News employees.<br />Mr. Ailes, who died Thursday at 77, built Fox News into the most profitable and most politically influential cable news network.<br />But the parent company of Fox News, 21st Century Fox, did not rally behind Mr. Ailes.<br />But I can’t stop people from calling me,’ he said.”<br />Mr. Wolff said that as the two men spoke, Ms. Ailes had texted him a picture of Mr. Ailes lying in the sun.<br />Following Mr. Ailes’s departure from Fox News, 21st Century Fox said it had incurred<br />a total of $45 million in costs tied to settlements through March 31.<br />The relationship between Mr. Trump and Mr. Ailes had been turbulent earlier in the campaign,<br />centering primarily on the candidate’s frustration with the Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly.<br />Everything changed for Mr. Ailes on July 6, when Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor, filed a lawsuit accusing him of sexual harassment.
