On Friday, a California woman represented by &#8220;woman&#8217;s rights&#8221; attorney Gloria Allred announced that she is filing a lawsuit against retail corporation Walmart for alleged racial discrimination.
Essie Grundy, flanked by her husband, daughter, and Ms. Allred, explained that she was horrified to see African American hair products locked in a glass case at her local Walmart store.
&#8220;When I walked down the aisle and saw that Walmart had placed all of the African American hair and skin products under lock and key, I had to pause; I had to step back; I was in shock. I realized that all the similar products for other races was freely available,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/Watch-Live-Walmart-Discrimination-Locked-Hair-Products-Racism-471317424.html">said</a> Grundy.
&#8220;It was something I had to stand up for,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;I would like the glass to go down, and for things to go back to the way it was, where it&#8217;s not segregated and everything is where everyone can get what they need.&#8221;
The mother of five said she was escorted to the register to pay for her products.
&#8220;I felt that I was being treated as a person who might be a thief, even though I have no criminal history,&#8221; she said.
&#8220;I never want my children, or anyone else&#8217;s children, to experience what I experienced at Walmart that day.&#8221;
Allred accused Walmart of perpetuating racial stereotypes. &#8220;We think that it perpetuates a racial stereotype that African American customers should be suspected of being thieves and criminals,&#8221; she said.
In a response to the accusations, Walmart said they do not tolerate any discrimination. &#8220;We serve more than 140 million customers weekly, crossing all demographics, and are focused on meeting their needs while providing the best shopping experience at each store,&#8221; said a company spokesman.
&#8220;We&#8217;re sensitive to this situation and also understand, like other retailers, that some products such as electronics, automotive, cosmetics and other personal care products are subject to additional security,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Those determinations are made on a store-by-store basis using data supporting the need for the heightened measures.&#8221;
In other words, if a product has &#8220;extra security&#8221; at particular store, it&#8217;s because that product is frequently stolen.
&#8220;While we&#8217;ve yet to review a complaint, we take this situation seriously and look forward to addressing it with the court,&#8221; added the spokesman.
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WATCH: Woman Suing Walmart For ‘Racism’ Because They Lock Up Hair Extensions. Gloria Allred Is Representing Her.

Gloria Allred

Race

Racism

Walmart

The former manager of the mall in Alabama that some claim GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore was banned from dropped a bombshell in a recent interview with a local FOX affiliate station in Birmingham.
Barnes Boyle, who managed the Gadsden Mall from 1981 to 1996, told WBRC FOX 6 on Wednesday that Roy Moore was not actually banned from the local mall for approaching teenaged girls.
&#8220;Sure, it was part of the job,&#8221; Boyle said. &#8220;We did have written reports and things. But to my knowledge, he was not banned from the mall.&#8221;
Boyle&#8217;s claims directly contradict a report in <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/locals-were-troubled-by-roy-moores-interactions-with-teen-girls-at-the-gadsden-mall?mbid=social_twitter">The New Yorker</a>, a strong left-leaning publication, that said Moore was banned from the mall for soliciting sex from teenagers.
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Former Gadsden Mall Manager on Roy Moore: &#8216;To My Knowledge, He Was Not Banned From the Mall&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/C2nBkiHcRI">pic.twitter.com/C2nBkiHcRI</a>
&#8212; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/932020424979779587?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2017</a></blockquote>
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&#8203;The claim that Moore was banned from the mall is just the latest claim to come under public scrutiny as MSNBC&#8217;s Katy Tur <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/23697/watch-allred-admits-she-does-not-know-if-moore-ryan-saavedra">intensely questioned</a> attention-crazed attorney Gloria Allred about the validity of a yearbook that Moore is alleged to have signed that would connect him to one of his accusers.
After pressuring Allred several times about the yearbook, Tur backed Allred into a corner and forced her to answer whether her client ever saw Roy Moore sign the yearbook.
&#8220;But did she see him sign it?&#8221; Tur asked.
&#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t &#8212; I haven&#8217;t asked her if she saw him, but we did describe what happened that evening in question,&#8221; Allred responded. &#8220;What she alleges was that she put it on the counter; that I think she asked to sign &#8212; or that he did sign it. That&#8217;s all.&#8221;

WATCH: Former Alabama Mall Manager Says Roy Moore WASN’T Banned Over Harassment Claims

Roy Moore

MSNBC host Katy Tur aggressively questioned Gloria Allred on Thursday over her knowledge regarding the authenticity of the yearbook that Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore is alleged to have signed. That yearbook belongs to Allred&#8217;s client, who claims that Moore sexually assaulted her.
Tur&#8217;s questions stemmed from a press conference on Wednesday where the attorney for Moore <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/23639/watch-moores-lawyer-calls-yearbook-be-examined-ryan-saavedra">questioned</a> the legitimacy of the yearbook that belongs to Beverly Young Nelson.
After pressing Allred several times about the issue, Tur finally pinned Allred into a corner and put her in a position where she had to answer.
&#8220;But did she see him sign it?&#8221; Tur asked.
&#8220;You know, I don&#8217;t &#8212; I haven&#8217;t asked her if she saw him, but we did describe what happened that evening in question,&#8221; Allred responded. &#8220;What she alleges was that she put it on the counter; that I think she asked to sign &#8212; or that he did sign it. That&#8217;s all.&#8221;
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During his press conference on Wednesday, Moore&#8217;s attorney, Phillip L. Jauregui, called for the yearbook to be released so experts could evaluate it to determine the credibility of the inscriptions in the yearbook.
&#8220;Look at 1977 after Merry Christmas, look at those two 7s and then look below at the 77. And I want to ask you: do you think it was written by the same person?&#8221; Jauregui said. &#8220;I want you to look at &#8216;old hickory house&#8217; which they say judge Moore wrote. Judge Moore says there is no way in the world that&#8217;s his handwriting.&#8221;
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Shortly after the press conference, Allred phoned into CNN&#8217;s &#8220;The Situation Room&#8221; and told host Wolf Blitzer that she and her client would be willing to submit the yearbook to an expert for evaluation but only if Moore was going to testify under oath before Senate leaders.
&#8220;We&#8217;re not denying, we&#8217;re not admitting, we&#8217;re not addressing,&#8221; Allred said. &#8220;We will not be distracted. And we will pursue a just result for our client.&#8221;
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WATCH: Allred Admits She Does Not Know If Moore Signed Accuser’s Yearbook

Democratic Party

An anonymous actress filed suit against Harvey Weinstein and his namesake production company Tuesday in Los Angeles, alleging that the disgraced Hollywood mogul raped her in 2016.
<a href="http://deadline.com/2017/11/harvey-weinstein-new-accuser-marco-polo-sexual-assault-masturbation-lawsuit-1202208432/">According to the suit</a>, the woman, who goes by the name Jane Doe in official filings, is a new accuser — she has not yet gone public with her claims against the mega-producer. She says she&#8217;s known Weinstein since 2011, and interacted with him often without incident. But in 2015, the producer lured Doe to his room at the Montage Hotel in Beverly Hills, claiming he wanted to speak with her about a part in a new Weinstein-produced Netflix series, &#8220;Marco Polo.&#8221;
Once in the room, Doe alleges that Weinstein grabbed her and forced her to watch as he dropped his pants and masturbated. “Despite her telling Weinstein ‘no,’ he proceeded to grip her wrist with one hand while using the other to masturbate in front of her until completion,&#8221; the complaint says.
She escaped from that incident, but just a few months later Weinstein called to tell her she&#8217;d gotten the &#8220;Marco Polo&#8221; part and asked to, again, meet with her privately. It&#8217;s at this meeting, Doe says, that Weinstein held her down and raped her.
Weinstein immediately denied the claims. &#8220;Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr. Weinstein,” a representative told Deadline. “Mr. Weinstein has further confirmed that there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances. Mr. Weinstein obviously can’t speak to anonymous allegations, but with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr. Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.”
The suit, filed by celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred, seeks damages from Weinstein for &#8220;sexual battery,&#8221; but also seeks restitution from the Weinstein Company which, the suit alleges, knew of Weinstein&#8217;s behavior and did nothing to rein in their eponymous chief executive.
“Prior to the incidents involving Plaintiff, the Companies’ executives, officers, directors, managing agents, and employees had actual knowledge of Weinstein’s repeated acts of sexual misconduct with women,” the complaint alleges.
In addition to Jane Doe&#8217;s suit, Allred also filed a separate &#8220;class action&#8221; claim. That suit, citing from news articles covering nearly 90 alleged incidents of sexual harassment, sexual abuse, and rape involving Weinstein, lists several anonymous victims, and indicates a plan to file a collective suit on behalf of at least a dozen actresses and entertainment industry professionals.
That may not come to fruition, but Allred is clearly preserving her options.

Actress Sues Harvey Weinstein And The Weinstein Company For ‘Sexual Battery’

Harvey Weinstein

Sexual Assault

Sexual Misconduct

Feminist attorney, Lisa Bloom, has resigned from her position advising alleged serial sexual harasser, Harvey Weinstein, after facing criticism from inside and outside Weinstein&#8217;s camp.
The lawyer, whose mother is also a feminist attorney &#8212; the famous Gloria Allred &#8212; posted her resignation to Twitter, claiming that Weinstein and his board were moving ahead on an &#8220;agreement,&#8221; and her services, apparently, were no longer necessary.
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I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein. 
My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement.
&#8212; Lisa Bloom (@LisaBloom) <a href="https://twitter.com/LisaBloom/status/916710877809737728?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 7, 2017</a></blockquote>
But Bloom had received criticism from all corners; the lawyer who often claims to be the voice of voiceless women facing harassment and intimidation from powerful men was throwing her support behind a Hollywood producer who reportedly tried to intimidate women into sexual affairs, confront starlets naked, and ask that they give him massages or watch him shower in order to get roles.
It was too much, even for Bloom&#8217;s mother to take. Allred told media that, &#8220;had I been asked by Mr. Weinstein to represent him, I would have declined, because I do not represent individuals accused of sex harassment.&#8221; Hollywood starlet Rose McGowan<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4957812/Rose-McGowan-lashes-amid-Weinstein-sex-abuse-scandal.html"> lashed out at those who claim to be advocates for women</a>, but who couldn&#8217;t bring themselves to speak out as stories of Weinstein&#8217;s alleged behavior saturated media.
Mika Brzezinski <a href="https://twitter.com/morningmika/status/916650174663024640">pulled out of a three-book deal with Weinstein&#8217;s company</a> on Saturday.
And as Bloom continued to defend Weinstein &#8212; saying that he was an &#8220;old dinosaur learning new ways&#8221; and reforming his creepy habits with the help of a therapist &#8212; more, stranger allegations emerged. A female newscaster from New York claimed Weinstein cornered her at a party and masturbated in front of her, keeping her prisoner until he was finished.
The high-profile public response should have taken its toll on Bloom&#8217;s business and reputation &#8212; after all, she seems to want to make her name as a feminist icon, not as a lawyer for scummy Hollywood harassers &#8212; but allegations surfaced Sunday morning that it may have been Weinstein&#8217;s camp that parted ways with Bloom, and not the other way around.
It seems Bloom, who has regularly spoken out about the intimidation women face when seeking to confront their harassers, abusers, and rapists may have wanted to intimidate Weinstein&#8217;s victims into silence with an aggressive public relations campaign that included photos of those same women looking chummy with Weinstein at parties and on red carpets.
<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/business/lisa-bloom-weinstein-attorney.html?emc=edit_na_20171007&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;nlid=9583097&amp;ref=headline">According to The </a><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/07/business/lisa-bloom-weinstein-attorney.html?emc=edit_na_20171007&amp;nl=breaking-news&amp;nlid=9583097&amp;ref=headline">New York Times</a>:
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As the board convened an emergency phone meeting on Thursday evening to address the allegations, published in an investigation by The Times, Ms. Bloom sent an email to board members attacking the article. She outlined a plan that involved &#8220;more and different reporting,&#8221; including &#8220;photos of several of the accusers in very friendly poses with Harvey after his alleged misconduct.&#8221;
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That&#8217;s just, frankly, horrifying &#8212; but it seems it was all that was left after the team tried to pin Weinstein&#8217;s behavior on a &#8220;vast right-wing conspiracy&#8221; and deflect attention from Weinstein&#8217;s alleged sexual misconduct by telling his leftist Hollywood friends that a freed-up Weinstein company would happily bankroll their anti-Trump projects.

Feminist Lawyer Lisa Bloom Resigns As Harvey Weinstein’s Advisor

Lisa Bloom

Lisa Bloom is targeting Usher in her latest lawsuit, representing two women and a man alleging that Usher exposed them to the herpes virus during unprotected sexual contact with the millionaire artist.
One of the Bloom&#8217;s clients is Quantasia Sharpton; both seen below from a press conference on August 4th.
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Sharpton claims to have had sexual contact with Usher some years ago after a concert.
Bloom cited &#8220;news reports&#8221; of Usher (whose legal name is Usher Raymond) testing positive for the herpes virus in 2009, alleging that Usher unlawfully exposed Sharpton to the virus during some sexual relations:
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Many news reports over the last several weeks have stated that celebrity musician Usher Raymond has tested positive for HSB2 also known as genital herpes.
Mr. Raymond has not publicly denied the reports that he was diagnosed with the virus in approximately 2009, nor has he denied the reports that he had unprotected sex with a woman after his diagnosis and transmitted the virus to her without warning her, paying her a $1.1 million settlement for her injuries in 2012.
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Sharpton falsely claimed to have a &#8220;sex tape&#8221; of her alleged sexual contact with Usher, <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2017/09/06/usher-accuser-sex-tape-lie-quantasia-sharpton/">reported TMZ</a> last Wednesday.
Bloom &#8211; a left-wing Democrat activist, self-described &#8220;feminist,&#8221; CNN and HLN alumnus, and NBC/MSNBC legal analyst &#8211; regularly pursues high-profile persons and businesses on behalf of clients with allegations of sexual crimes.
Bloom follows the footsteps of her mother Gloria Allred, also a left-wing Democrat activist and &#8220;feminist&#8221; lawyer who pursues wealthy persons and businesses with lawsuits often relating to sexual crimes and/or sexual discrimination.
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Attorney Gloria Allred (R) presents her daughter TV personality/author Lisa Bloom with a Deborah Award at the Anti-Defamation League 20th Annual Deborah Awards at SLS Hotel on March 19, 2014 in Beverly Hills, California.
<a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/17094/kathy-griffin-im-first-amendment-activist-robert-kraychik">Kathy Griffin</a> procured Bloom&#8217;s legal services shortly after the Griffon&#8217;s <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/news/16998/disgusting-kathy-griffin-holds-trumps-bloody-hank-berrien">shared photo shoot</a> involving a prop modeled to depict the severed and bloody head of President Donald Trump.
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Guess Which Feminist Lawyer Is Helping To Sue Usher

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Leftism

&#8220;A sitting president of the United States, and his grown children, and the first lady, are personally &#8212; I feel &#8212; personally trying to ruin my life forever,&#8221; said Kathy Griffin during a Friday press conference, framing herself as a victim of what she described as an abuse of power by the first family.
&#8220;What&#8217;s happening to me has never happened, ever, in the history of this great country,&#8221; said Griffin, presenting backlash against her photo shoot &#8212; which depicted a faux severed head of President Donald Trump &#8212; as historically unique.
Griffin presented herself as a near-martyr for and defender of free speech and expression while asking for public support:
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This is America, and you shouldn&#8217;t have to die for [a joke.] The death threats I&#8217;m getting, they&#8217;re constant, and they are detailed, and they are serious, and they are specific. Today it&#8217;s me, and tomorrow it could be you.
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Griffin cast herself as preemptively defending young girls&#8217; aspirations to become comediennes:
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If I don&#8217;t stand up and say this, I&#8217;m afraid there&#8217;s gonna be some 12-year-old nerdy girl like me in Oak Park, Illinois, who&#8217;s gonna maybe be watching me to see what I do. And this bully, this president, of all people, is gonna come after me? &#8230; I&#8217;m not laying down for this guy.
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Waxing heroic, Griffin framed her comedy career as altruistic, assisting &#8220;the gay guy &#8230; who&#8217;s scared to come out.&#8221;
&#8220;Honestly, it&#8217;s not for me, it&#8217;s for them,&#8221; said Griffin of her press conference&#8217;s purpose: to continue bringing enjoyment to her fans.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want this to happen to anyone else,&#8221; said Griffin, alleging that Trump had ushered in a new era of authoritarianism. &#8220;There&#8217;s been a change, a real shift change, starting about 18 months ago.&#8221;
Flexing her &#8220;feminist&#8221; bona fides, Griffin claimed to have ongoing struggles against &#8220;older white guys:&#8221;
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I&#8217;m not afraid of Donald Trump. He&#8217;s a bully. I&#8217;ve dealt with older white guys trying to keep me down my whole life, my whole career. I&#8217;m a woman in very male-dominated field. &#8230; There&#8217;s a bunch of old white guys trying to silence me. And I&#8217;m just here to say that&#8217;s wrong. &#8230; This wouldn&#8217;t be happening to a guy. This is a woman thing &#8230; I&#8217;ve been living this my whole career.
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Griffin said she is being used as a &#8220;shiny object&#8221; by President Donald Trump to &#8220;distract from his FBI investigation.&#8221;
Griffin solicited legal representation from The Bloom Firm, founded by Lisa Bloom, a left-wing Democrat legal analyst with NBC and alumna of CNN/HLN.
Bloom and her mother, Gloria Allred, are left-wing Democrat lawyers who practice legal shakedowns of individuals and companies with allegations of sexism and racism. Both describe themselves as &#8220;feminists.&#8221;
Labeling herself a &#8220;civil rights attorney,&#8221; Bloom described Trump as a &#8220;woman-hating tyrannical president&#8221; who is &#8220;attempting to ruin a comedian.&#8221;
Bloom cast Griffin as a victim of anti-female sexism and misogynistic double standards, alleging that male artists were not subjected to the same standards as her client.
&#8220;She has been suffering through this,&#8221; said Bloom of Griffin.
Bloom described Griffin&#8217;s mock-severed-head photo shoot as a &#8220;parody of Trump&#8217;s own sexist remarks taken to an extreme absurdist visual,&#8221; pointing to the president&#8217;s public feud with Megyn Kelly as its inspiration.
Griffin&#8217;s &#8220;apology&#8221; on Twitter, said Bloom, was &#8220;heartfelt.&#8221; The &#8220;apology,&#8221; however, did not include a direct apology to Trump or his family.
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WOODLAND HILLS, CA &#8211; JUNE 02: Kathy Griffin (C) and her attorney Lisa Bloom speak during a press conference at The Bloom Firm on June 2, 2017 in Woodland Hills, California. Griffin is holding the press conference after a controversial photoshoot where she was holding a bloodied mask depicting President Donald Trump and to address alleged bullying by the Trump family. 

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Crying Kathy Griffin: Trump Is ‘Trying To Ruin My Life Forever!’

First Amendment

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Lawfare

MSNBC&#8217;s Lisa Bloom accused Fox News Channel&#8217;s (FNC&#8217;s) management of shielding what she said were male sexual predators in powerful company position: &#8220;[Fox News Channel] is the Bill Cosby of corporate America. Women over and over again are driven out.&#8221;

Speaking with CNN&#8217;s Brian Stelter for Reliable Sources, Bloom was described as a &#8220;victims rights attorney&#8221; in a descriptive chyron. She alleged that FNC&#8217;s management displayed a pattern of protecting male &#8220;predators:&#8221;

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&#8220;Dozens and dozens of women have come forward and said, &#8216;I was sexually harassed there.&#8217; How many Gretchen Carlsons, how many Andrea Tantaroses, do we need? All of these women, by the way, driven out, their careers over. Bill O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s still sitting pretty. This has been going on since 2002 according to The New York Times article. This is absolutely outrageous. Do women&#8217;s&#8217; careers mean anything at Fox News? Do the laws of sexual harassment ever get enforced there? I don&#8217;t see any evidence of that.&#8221;
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Bloom called for an &#8220;independent investigation&#8221; of sexual harassment at FNC. She also called for FNC to rehire dismissed former female employees such as Gretchen Carlson and Andrea Tantaros (both of whom accused Fox News&#8217; former Chairman Rogers Ailes of sexual harassment).

Fox News must &#8220;drive out the predators at [its] network,&#8221; said Bloom, describing the news media outlet as possessing &#8220;a culture of sexual harassment.&#8221;

Bloom wears several hats; she is a legal analyst for both NBC and MSNBC, <a href="http://www.thebloomfirm.com/">founder and owner</a> of her eponymous legal firm, and a <a href="http://stories.avvo.com/author/lisa-bloom">legal analyst</a> for Avvo. The daughter of Gloria Allred, she describes herself as a &#8220;feminist&#8221; attorney in her representation of female clients who accuse men, businesses, and organizations of sexual misconduct or prohibited discrimination.

Wendy Walsh, a former &#8220;<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news.html">regular guest</a>&#8221; on FNC&#8217;s The O&#8217;Reilly Factor, is now publicly accusing FNC&#8217;s Bill O&#8217;Reilly of seeking sexual favors in exchange for promoting her to a contributorship role with the network. She has procured Bloom as her legal representation. She claims to have been promised a permanent role with FNC by O&#8217;Reilly, only to have have the promise rescinded following her rebuffing of O&#8217;Reilly&#8217;s sexual advances.

Bloom claims that Walsh is not pursuing money from either O&#8217;Reilly or FNC.

On Saturday, Walsh and Bloom sat down with The New York Times for an interview &#8211; complete with a series of professional photographs &#8211; in order to elevate the status of their legal pursuit across the news media landscape.

The New York Times also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/01/business/media/bill-oreilly-sexual-harassment-fox-news.html?_r=0">reported</a> on the settlement of sexual harassment allegations against FNC and Bill O&#8217;Reilly:
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An investigation by The New York Times has found a total of five women who have received payouts from either Mr. O&#8217;Reilly or the company in exchange for agreeing to not pursue litigation or speak about their accusations against him. The agreements totaled about $13 million.
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Describing herself as a &#8220;fighter for justice&#8221; on her Twitter profile, Bloom&#8217;s Twitter banner also features the contemporary &#8220;RESIST&#8221; slogan popularized by Democrats and the broader left:

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Bloom is also an alumnus of CNN and its sister network HLN.

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