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It's not exactly stunning that former Fox News host Andrea Tantaros has filed a lawsuit against the cable channel and recently deposed chairman Roger Ailes. Since another former Fox News host, Gretchen Carlson, accused Ailes of sexual harassment in a lawsuit last month, more than two dozen women have made similar claims; it seemed inevitable that someone besides Carlson would sue, too.

But besides a familiar story of harassment and retaliation by Ailes, Tantaros' complaint contains other eyebrow-raising allegations about what went on at a network she described as "a sex-fueled, Playboy Mansion-like cult, steeped in intimidation, indecency and misogyny."

Fox News told The Washington Post it does not comment on pending litigation. Here are six claims by Tantaros that stand out.

-Female hosts were expected to strip down without privacy

"Each year," according to Tantaros' complaint, "Fox News conducts a 'trunk show' at which female on-air personalities pick out their wardrobe. Fox News's 'trunk show' requires its female employees, including Tantaros, to dress and undress in front of Fox News' wardrobe personnel in the middle of a room without even the benefit of a curtain to act as a dressing room."

-Ailes made wildly inappropriate comments about on-air talent

Among the things Tantaros says she heard Ailes say:

"Harris (Faulkner) has to be careful. She has the tendency to look like the angry black woman."

Referring to Maria Bartiromo: "She got so fat."

"Is Greg Gutfeld gay?"

"Is Dana (Perino) a lesbian?"

"Perhaps Gutfeld and Perino are sleeping together?"

Kimberly Guilfoyle is a "Puerto Rican whore."

Referring to Gretchen Carlson: "She's nuts."

-Ailes and another executive told hosts not to defend Megyn Kelly against Donald Trump

"After Donald Trump attacked Megyn Kelly for allegedly treating him unfairly in an August 2015 Republican Presidential Debate, Fox News publicly backed Kelly in the dispute," the Tantaros complaint acknowledges. "However, (vice president Bill) Shine executed Ailes's tactic of playing both sides of the fence by instructing all on-air talent that none of them should defend Kelly against Trump."

Kelly did tell More Magazine in March that she "wishâ…›ed) that (Bill) O'Reilly had defended me more in his interview with Trump. I would have defended him more."

-Fox News secretly controls other media outlets

Tantaros accuses Ailes of "crafting and placing insulting stories about Tantaros, based upon baseless and malicious leaks about Tantaros from unnamed Fox News sources, in web sites such as TVNewser, Blastingnews.com and the Cable Gamer, which are widely reported to be financially supported and/or controlled by Fox News."

Ailes biographer and New York magazine writer Gabriel Sherman reported in his 2014 book, "The Loudest Voice in the Room," that Ailes is behind the Cable Game blog. But there is little evidence connecting Ailes or Fox News to Blastingnews, and TVNewser creator Brian Stelter, now at CNN, denied any ties to the site he founded 12 years ago.

-Bill O'Reilly invited Tantaros to his "very private" place on Long Island

Tantaros alleges that "commencing in February 2016, Bill O'Reilly ('O'Reilly'), whom Tantaros had considered to be a good friend and a person from whom she sought career guidance, started sexually harassing her by, inter alia, (a) asking her to come to stay with him on Long Island where it would be 'very private,' and (b) telling her on more than one occasion that he could 'see (her) as a wild girl,' and that he believed that she had a 'wild side.'"

In 2004, O'Reilly settled a sexual harassment suit brought by his former producer, Andrea Mackris.

-Scott Brown made an unwanted advance, too

"On or about August 18, 2015," Tantaros alleges, "former Massachusetts Senator Scott Brown ('Brown') appeared on 'Outnumbered.' Brown made a number of sexually inappropriate comments to Tantaros on set, including, and in a suggestive manner, that Tantaros 'would be fun to go to a nightclub with.' After the show was over, Brown snuck up behind Tantaros while she was purchasing lunch and put his hands on her lower waist. She immediately pulled back, telling Brown to 'stop.'"

Brown told the Boston Globe Tuesday that "her statement about our limited on air, green room interactions are false."

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