Roger Ailes

Roger Ailes
Ailes in 2013
Born
Roger Eugene Ailes

(1940-05-15)May 15, 1940
DiedMay 18, 2017(2017-05-18) (aged 77)
Alma materOhio University (BA)
Occupation(s)President of Fox News
Chair of Fox Television
Stations

20th Television
Political partyRepublican
Spouses
Marjorie White
(m. 1960; div. 1977)
Norma Ferrer
(m. 1981; div. 1995)
Elizabeth Tilson
(m. 1998)
Children1

Roger Eugene Ailes (May 15, 1940 – May 18, 2017) was an American television executive and media consultant. He was the chairman and CEO of Fox News, Fox Television Stations and 20th Television. Ailes was a media consultant for US Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, and for Rudy Giuliani's 1989 New York City mayoral election. In July 2016, he was forced out of Fox News after sexually harassing many female Fox employees, including on-air hosts Gretchen Carlson, Megyn Kelly, and Andrea Tantaros.[1][2]

Ailes had hemophilia, a medical condition in which the body is impaired in its ability to produce blood clots. He died on May 18, 2017, at the age of 77 after a subdural hematoma that was aggravated by his hemophilia.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference NYTimes.Settles was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Sherman, Gabriel (August 8, 2016). "Andrea Tantaros Says She Made Harassment Claims Against Ailes, Was Taken Off Air". Intelligencer. Retrieved January 3, 2022.