Skip Bayless accused of offering Fox Sports employee $1.5M for sex in bombshell lawsuit

Skip Bayless, a longtime sports commentator and the former co-host of Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” was sued by a former hairstylist with the network and accused of offering her $1.5 million for sex and inappropriately touching her.Noushin Faraji alleged that the 73-year-old Bayless, whose hair she cut after getting assigned to the “Undisputed” show, gave “lingering hugs after each haircut, putting his body against her own, pressing against her breasts,” according to the lawsuit.“He then began to kiss her on her cheeks,” the lawsuit continued.“Ms.

Faraji was uncomfortable by the physical contact and would make excuses to leave right after the haircuts.”Faraji worked part-time for Fox Sports from 2012-16 and full-time from 2016-24, according to the lawsuit.Bayless, the lawsuit alleged, also told Faraji that he’d “change” her life if she agreed to have sex.She repeatedly denied his advances, according to the lawsuit, and told Bayless she “did not date at work.”In 2021, Faraji, a single mother, allegedly informed Bayless about an issue she feared could be cancer after she “developed issues with her left ovary” and had a fourth biopsy planned — hoping Bayless “would take pity on her and cease his advances,” according to the lawsuit.“Instead, Mr.

Bayless told her that he wanted to be with her,” the lawsuit alleged.“Ms.

Faraji panicked and began rambling that there were cameras everywhere, that she has a child, and that she does not want him.Mr.

Bayless then grabbed her hands, began kissing them, and offered her $1.5 million to have sex.”Bayless was accused of making another advance toward Faraji a week later, which prompted her to respond, “Skip, stop, you have a wife.”“Aren’t you Muslim? Doesn’t your dad have three to four wives?” Bayless allegedly responded, according to the lawsuit.Faraji told Bayless that “her father was dead, and when Mr.Bayless looked taken aback, she made an excuse to leave,” th...