Transcript for Newly-revealed sexual harassment claims against Bill O'Reilly

Now to that new report about alleged sexual harassment at fox News involving Bill O'Reilly. "The New York Times" reporting several women received payouts totaling nearly $13 million and ABC's Mara schiavocampo is here with more on that. Good morning, Mara. Reporter: Amy, good morning. This is not the first time we've heard of O'Reilly's involvement in sexual harassment cases. He publicly settled a 2004 lawsuit for $9 million. But now there are bombshell new revelations about other previously unreported payouts of millions of dollars in confidential settlements including one that even his bosses at fox reportedly didn't know about. This morning, new revelations about sexual harassment claims at Fox News aimed at the network's biggest star. With our lead story -- Reporter: "The New York Times" finding Fox News and bill O'Reilly paid five women a total of almost $13 million in settlements going back 15 years. Not only were there accusations, but now we come to find out that there were actual payouts. Reporter: In 2002 the report says fox first becoming aware of O'Reilly's alleged inappropriate behavior reportedly settling with a producer claiming he berated her in the newsroom but not sexual assault her. Then in 2004 without admitting any wrongdoing O'Reilly reportedly paid producer Andrea Makris almost $9 million live the two publicly battled over her sexual harassment claims. Welcome to happy hour. Reporter: In 2011 fox business network host Rebecca Gomez diamond leaving the network after allegedly being paid by O'Reilly in secret. The network reportedly not finding out until five years later and in 2016, fox's parent company allegedly settling with two correspondents claiming sexual harassment by O'Reilly. Laurie dhue. Laurie dhue reportedly receiving more than a million dollars and Juliet Huddy paid 1.6 million. Welcome back to the bottom half of the hour. Gretchen Carlson first exposing Fox News' alleged culture of harassment last summer. It's time for us to to come out of the shadows and let our otherwises be heard. Reporter: Suing Fox News chairman and chief executive Roger Ailes claiming her contract wasn't renewed after she rebuffed his advances. Though he denied the allegations Ailes resigned just weeks later, fox settling for $20 million. The scrutiny leading to an ongoing federal criminal investigation into whether the network used corporate funds to pay off Ailes' accusers. At the time, O'Reilly defended his friend and boss. In this country every famous, powerful or wealthy person is a target. Reporter: Now in a statement posted to his website, O'Reilly saying that he too is a target. Writing, I'm vulnerable to lawsuits from individuals who want me to pay them to avoid negative publicity. In my more than 20 years at Knox news channel no one has ever filed a complaint about me with the human resources department. Even on the anonymous hot line. I have put to rest any controversies to spare my children. Now, O'Reilly and fox are both also now involved in a legal battle with former Fox News host Andrea tantaros accusing O'Reilly of sexual harassment and in addition to the settlements one other woman, Wendy Walsh is said to speak out about her experience later today. All right, Mara. Joining us is Dan Abrams and Lisa bloom, the attorney for Wendy Walsh, a former "O'Reilly factor" guest saying that he failed to follow through on his offer to secure a position after she turned down his advances and according to the report, fox is saying that Walsh was removed because of bad ratings. What does she say happen? Well, that's ridiculous. She was only a guest on a segment with other guests with Mr. O'Reilly with topic chosen by their producers. You mean to tell me that the few seconds that she was on, the ratings went down. Everybody turned off their TVs? She's been on hundreds of cable news shows since. Everybody asks her back. She's fabulous on TV but this is typical Fox News behavior. Going after anyone who dares to speak out about sexual harassment even Wendy Walsh who has not asked for a dime, who is not suing but simply speaking out about her story. Fox says she never told anyone at the company about what happened. Why didn't she? Because she was scared. Because she didn't want to be in the middle of the financial -- the difficult situation that she's in now with everybody attacking her online. But she was contacted by a reporter now four years later and decided to tell the truth and asked me if I would stand by her if she did. I said that I would and now she's telling her story. Yeah, Lisa, as you mentioned she's not filing a lawsuit. Not asking for money so what is today about? Well, we are going to ask for an independent investigation of this toxic culture of sexual harassment at Fox News. It is not simply the cost of doing business to pay millions of dollars year after year and to allow predators to stay in place at any corporation in America. You know, the problem is not just sexual harassment, it's that so many of these women have been driven out of their jobs, their careers in television over when they dare to speak out. Every woman in America has the right to a workplace free of sexual harassment and to be protected from retaliation. It is not Normal what is going on at Fox News and it is also not legal. Lisa, we should mention that fox said this, 21st century fox takes these matters seriously and have looked into these matters and discussed them with Mr. O'Reilly. While he denies the meters of these claims he resolved those he regarded his personal responsibility and he is fully committed to supporting our efforts to improve the spriern for all employees at fox. He says he's vulnerable to people looking for upon and settling is not an admission of guilt, correct. Both those things are true of the settling is not an admission of gill and high-profile people are bigger targets. With that said, you have to look at the number of allegations here. There are a lot of other very high-profile people who have not had this sort of number and that's the real danger for fox here. Is that more people are going to come forward now. I think that's also what makes someone like Wendy Walsh so dangerous to fox and O'Reilly she's not suing. She's not asking for money and so as a result the usual response which is, ah, just trying to get a payout, et cetera, doesn't apply. I think it's really important to distinguish between the cases that O'Reilly is settling himself and the cases that fox is settling and the reason that's so important is because Bill O'Reilly can say on cases that the corporate entity is paying out, look, I wouldn't have paid that out. I didn't do anything wrong. They made a decision, that's not my problem. When he is paying it out himself, that's a much tougher argument, in particular when you're talking about $9 million in one case according to "The New York Times"? And we do have limited time here but O'Reilly admitted to wrongdoing. Would an average company let that many complaints against one person of the same nature pile up and let that person still go unpunished. No such thing as an average company. The bottom line is you look at a company will look at everything from the seriousness of the allegations to what is the corporate culture at the place. Meaning how do they define themselves? Under Roger Ailes sexual harassment allegations were not taken as seriously as they should have been, no question and fox would say we're now taking them more seriously. We shall see but we'll also see what happens in terms of moving forward as I said before. Dan, Lisa bloom, thank you, both and, Michael, we'll turn it

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