Skip Bayless is accused in a bombshell lawsuit of offering a Fox Sports employee .5 million for sex

Skip Bayless is accused in a bombshell lawsuit of offering a Fox Sports employee $1.5 million for sex

Skip Bayless, a longtime sports commentator and former co-host of Fox Sports 1’s “Undisputed,” has been sued by a former hairdresser at the network and accused of offering her $1.5 million for sex and touching her inappropriately.

Noushin Faraji claimed that Bayless, 73, whose hair she cut after being assigned to the “Undisputed” show, “gave long hugs after every haircut, pressed his body against hers and pushed against her breasts,” according to the report Newspaper lawsuit.

“He then began kissing her on the cheeks,” the lawsuit continues. “MS. Faraji felt uncomfortable with the physical contact and looked for excuses to leave right after the haircut.”


Skip Bayless has worked at ESPN and Fox Sports.
Skip Bayless has worked at ESPN and Fox Sports. WireImage

According to the lawsuit, Faraji worked part-time for Fox Sports from 2012 to 2016 and full-time from 2016 to 2024.

Bayless, the lawsuit says, also told Faraji that he would “change” her life if she consented to sex.

She repeatedly denied his advances, the lawsuit said, and told Bayless that she had “not had a date at work.”

In 2021, Faraji, a single mother, reportedly informed Bayless of an issue she feared could be cancer after she “developed problems with her left ovary” and scheduled a fourth biopsy – hoping that Bayless would “take pity on her and stop his advances,” the lawsuit says.

“Instead, Mr. Bayless told her he wanted to be with her,” the lawsuit says. “MS. Faraji panicked and began rambling about how there were cameras everywhere, that she had a child and that she didn’t want him. Then Mr. Bayless grabbed her hands, started kissing her and offered her $1.5 million for sex.”

Bayless was accused of making another advance on Faraji a week later, prompting her to respond: “Skip, stop, you have a wife.”

“Aren’t you a Muslim? Doesn’t your father have three or four wives?” According to the lawsuit, Bayless responded.

Faraji told Bayless that “her father was dead and when Mr. Bayless looked stunned, she excused herself to leave,” the lawsuit says.

The lawsuit also alleged that Bayless accused Faraji multiple times in 2022 of having sex with former NFL tight end Shannon Sharpe, his “Undisputed” co-host.


    Skip Bayless
Skip Bayless (l.) and Shannon Sharpe worked together on FS1’s Undisputed. Getty Images

When he allegedly discovered that Faraji and Sharpe never had sex the following year, Bayless apologized to Faraji, according to the lawsuit.

He also allegedly told Faraji in December 2023 that he “still loved her” and “tried to have sex with her again,” the lawsuit says.

The 14-count, 42-page lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles, also includes specific details about the allegations against FS1 host Joy Taylor and FS1 Executive Vice President of Content Charlie Dixon.

“We take these allegations seriously and are making no further comment at this time given the pending litigation,” a Fox Sports spokesperson said in a statement to The Post.

Bayless co-hosted Undisputed for eight years before leaving in August 2024.

He began his career in the sports media industry as a print writer and previously worked for ESPN before joining FS1 in 2016.

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