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Skip Bayless Accused Of Offering Co-Worker $1.5 Million For Sex

Originally posted on Athlon Sports | By Mike Fisher | Last updated Jan 5, 2025 5:27 PM ET

Sports media personality Skip Bayless is being accused in a lawsuit of propositioning a former Fox Sports co-worker with an offer of $1.5 million to have sex with him.

Noushin Faraji, who says she worked at the network for 13 years, levels a serious of troubling accusations at the deposed host and executives at Fox in a 42-page document as reported by Front Office Sports.

In the suit filed in Los Angeles in which Faraji seeks unspecified monetary damages and a jury trial, the hairdresser alleges that after she started working on the Undisputed morning show, Bayless began a habit of giving “lingering hugs and kisses on the cheek while putting his body against hers and pressing against her breasts.”

FOS' report notes that the suit notes that the single mother Faraji repeatedly told Bayless she was not interested in him and did not “date at work”. She also claims she told Bayless she was suffering from ovarian cancer, after developing issues with her left ovary, hoping to halt his advances.

Bayless, however, allegedly became more aggressive toward her over time, at one point offering the $1.5 million to have sex with him while offering to “change” her life.

From the suit: “Mr. Bayless made another advance at Ms. Faraji. Ms. Faraji responded: “Skip, stop, you have a wife.” Mr. Bayless responded: “Aren’t you Muslim? Doesn’t your dad have three to four wives?”

"Ms. Faraji responded that her father was dead, and when Mr. Bayless looked taken aback, she made an excuse to leave.”

During her time at Fox, Faraji's suit says she registered multiple complaints to the FOX HR department.

“Ms. Faraji brings forth this action because for over a decade at Fox, she was forced to endure a misogynistic, racist, and ableist workplace where executives and talent were allowed to physically and verbally abuse workers with impunity,” FOS writes of the suit's assertions. “When Ms. Faraji and others came forward to report the wrongdoing, instead of addressing their concerns, Fox retaliated against them while the perpetrators and those who protected them were inexplicably promoted. This case thus represents yet another in a long line of cases chronicling the toxic culture at Fox, marked by bad faith promises and repeated failures to address a poisonous and entrenched patriarchy.”

FOS reports that it has reached out to Ms. Faraji’s lawyers and a Fox Sports spokesperson but has yet to get a response.

Bayless, 73, got his start in media in Dallas as a columnist covering the Cowboys and other sports but in 2024 was dumped by FS1 management. He now hosts a podcast.

This article first appeared on Athlon Sports and was syndicated with permission.

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