O'Reilly Hit With Sex Harass Suit

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Fox loudmouth 'hounded'
October 15, 2004 - 4:02PM

O'Reilly ... "I have been advised to keep my big mouth shut."

Fox News TV host Bill O'Reilly says he suffered "the worst day of my life" over a sleazy sex scandal.

Indeed, it has forced the talk-show loudmouth into silence.

"I have been advised to keep my big mouth shut, and I have promised to do that," O'Reilly told the New York Daily News from his Fox News studio today.

But he didn't.

"This has been the worst day of my life," O'Reilly said. "I am getting hounded by the press, and I knew I would be. I knew that they were going to kill me, but what am I going to do?"

O'Reilly, 55, was accused yesterday of making "disgusting" phone calls and remarks to Andrea Mackris, 33, an associate producer on the popular Fox show The O'Reilly Factor.

Hours before Mackris sued him, O'Reilly, a married father of two who lives on Long Island, struck the first blow - filing his own lawsuit claiming that Mackris and her lawyer, Benedict Morelli, tried to extort $US60 million ($A82.5 million) from him and Fox News to buy her silence.

And he used the airwaves to tell his three million viewers, "These people picked the wrong guy."

"This is a man who went on TV and said, 'They don't know what kind of guy they're messing with.' When somebody says something like that, I take it as a threat against me, my family, my client and her family," Morelli said.

He then raised the stakes, suggesting the scandal could destroy O'Reilly's career.

"They have made it personal. When this case is dismissed, not only are they going to be embarrassed, but they are going to see who is left standing. I think this can bring O'Reilly down."
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