Report: Ailes hires libel lawyer for possible New York magazine suit

The recently ousted CEO of Fox News, Roger Ailes, has hired a prominent libel lawyer for a possible suit against New York Magazine, The Financial Times reported Monday.

Aides has retained Charles Harder, who recently helped ex-pro-wrestler Hulk Hogan win a $140 million suit against the website Gawker, which went bankrupt and closed shortly after.

A New York magazine spokeswoman confirmed to The Huffington Post that Harder had contacted the publication and reporter Gabriel Sherman on Ailes’s behalf.

The HuffPo said the lawyer requested they “preserve documents” related to stories Sherman wrote about Ailes for a possible defamation suit.

“The letter sent by Harder was not informative as to the substance of their objections to the reporting,” a New York Magazine spokeswoman said. “Sherman’s work is and has been carefully reported.”

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Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson “turned the tables” on former boss Roger Ailes by secretly recording him, it was reported Friday.

Carlson, who's suing the former Fox honcho for sexual harassment, taped a year's worth of meetings with the political powerhouse, and caught “numerous incidents” of harassment on tape, New York magazine reported.

"I think you and I should have had a sexual relationship a long time ago, and then you'd be good and better and I'd be good and better. Sometimes problems are easier to solve" that way, he reportedly said in one of the taped conversations.

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