21st Century Fox, the parent company of Fox News, confirmed Sunday night it will investigate a sexual harassment claim against prime-time host Bill O'Reilly.

The investigation follows a complaint by Wendy Walsh, a former periodic guest on "The O'Reilly Factor," who phoned in a complaint to the network's workplace misconduct hotline last week. Walsh's complaint was recorded with her lawyer, former NBC contributor Lisa Bloom, and posted on YouTube.

And it comes after a New York Times story revealed Fox or O'Reilly had paid out $13 million to settle harassment cases against him.



"21st Century Fox investigates all complaints and we have asked the law firm Paul Weiss to continue assisting the company in these serious matters," the company said in a statement.

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