Roger Ailes Biography, Age, Wife, Wives, Son, Movie, Death, and Net Worth

Roger Ailes Biography | Who Is Roger Ailes?

Roger Ailes was an American television executive and media consultant. He was also the Chairman and CEO of Fox News and Fox Television Stations.

Prior to this, Ailes was a media consultant for Republican presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush as well as Rudy Giuliani’s first mayoral campaign.

In 2016, after resigning from Fox News due to allegations of sexual misconduct, he became an adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, where he assisted with debate preparation.

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Ailes was born on May 15, 1940, and met his death on May 18, 2017, at the age of 77.

Roger Ailes Young

Ailes’ career in television began in Cleveland and Philadelphia, where he started as Production Assistant in the year 1961, moving to a producer in 1965 then later to Executive Producer in 1967 for KYW-TV, a then-locally produced a talk-variety show, The Mike Douglas Show. He continued as Executive Producer for the show when it was syndicated nationally, and in 1967 and 1968 he won Emmy Awards for it.

Roger Ailes Wife

Ailes was married three times; his first two marriages did not go so well. They both ended in a divorce. On February 14, 1998, Ailes married his third wife Elizabeth Tilson.

Formerly a television executive, she was the owner and publisher of local New York state newspapers The Putnam County News & Recorder and The Putnam County Courier. He had one son, named Zachary, with Elizabeth.

Roger Ailes Wives

• Elizabeth Tilson
• Norma Ferrer
• Marjorie White

Roger Ailes Sons

Zac was just 17 years old at the time of his father’s passing in 2017. By then, he’d witnessed his father’s professional downfall. A year prior, Ailes had been ousted from his position of President and CEO of Fox News following a slew of sexual misconduct allegations. Ailes died of a subdural hematoma at the age of 77 in their new six-bedroom mansion in Palm Beach, FL, which they bought after leaving New York.

Like his mother, Beth, Zac remained loyal to Ailes until the very end – at times, vocally so. At Ailes’ memorial service, Zac vowed to go after the people who had accused his father of sexual misconduct, like Fox news anchors Gretchen Carlson and Megyn Kelly.
“I want all the people who betrayed my father to know that I’m coming after them and hell is coming with me,” the 17-year-old Zac said, according to Variety.

Clearly, Zac only knew one side of his father — the guy who left work to attend basketball games and coach from the stands. “Zac was the only person who could lure Ailes away from the office on a Wednesday afternoon,” Ailes’ biographer, Zev Chafets, wrote in Roger Ailes: Off Camera, excerpted in Vanity Fair.
Ailes was aware that he wouldn’t see Zac, his only child, grow old. Zac was born in 2000 when Ailes was 60 years old. “Because of my hemophilia, I’ve been prepared to face death all of my life. I’m at peace. When it comes, I’ll be fine, calm. I’ll miss life, though. Especially my family,” Ailes told his biographer, Chafets.

So, beginning when Zac was four, Ailes began stowing away sentimental items like mementos, notes, and photos in memory boxes. In Roger Ailes: Off Camera, Chafets portrays the substance of one such box, intended to be opened after Ailes’ demise. Features incorporate a pocket-sized U.S. Constitution in which Ailes had expressed, “The authors trusted it thus should you;” a sappy commemoration card to Ailes’ significant other, Beth; and a couple of representative gold coins in the event that Zac needs to get away from the States. Ailes told Chafets, “On the off chance that you have somewhat gold and a handgun, you can generally get over the Canadian outskirt.”

At long last, at the base of the case was a duplicate of Sun Tzu’s The Art of War with the guidance Ailes would need to give the grown-up form of Zac: “Keep away from war if at all conceivable yet never surrender your opportunity — or your respect. Continuously represent what is correct. On the off chance that completely compelled to battle, at that point battle with boldness and win. Try not to attempt to win…win! Love, Dad”

Ailes likewise attempted to acquaint his child with his past — that excursion to Ohio portrayed in scene “2008” of The Loudest Voice truly happened. Ailes took Zac to visit his youth home in Warren, OH. As indicated by the account Roger Ailes: Off Camera, Zac was stunned by the dissimilarity between their childhoods. While remaining in the lounge room, Zac commented, “This is littler than our vehicle.” For setting, Zac experienced childhood with a compound containing two chateaus in Garrison, NY.

Today, Zac is 19 years of age. He’ll get the on-screen treatment by and by in the up and coming (still untitled) Jay Roach film about Roger Ailes.

Roger Ailes Net Worth

Ailes reportedly amassed a net worth of $100 million, as per Celebrity Net Worth, and he was making generally $20 million every year in compensation before he was unexpectedly terminated by Fox a year ago in the midst of lewd behavior claims. Fox paid Ailes $40 million to step down in July, as per reports

In the months since his flight, Fox News’ parent organization, Twenty-First Century Fox, allegedly paid out $45 million to settle charges of inappropriate behavior as of the finish of the main quarter this year. That all-out incorporated a $20 million settlement in September to previous Fox and Friends co-have Gretchen Carlson, who recorded suit against Ailes.

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On October 7th; Ailes was tapped by Rupert Murdoch in 1996 to become the CEO of Fox News. After the departure of Lachlan Murdoch from News Corporation, Ailes was named Chairman of the Fox Television Stations Group on August 15, 2005. Following his newest assignment, one of his first acts was canceling A Current Affair in September 2005 and replacing it with a new Geraldo Rivera show, Geraldo at Large, which debuted on Halloween, 2005. Rivera’s show drew about the same ratings as A Current Affair in January 2007.

Ailes hired former CBS executive Dennis Swanson on October 2005 to be president of the Fox Television Stations Group. Additionally, there were changes in affiliates’ news programs with the standardization of Fox News Channel-like graphics, redesigned studios, news-format changes, and the announcement of a new morning television show called The Morning Show with Mike and Juliet to be produced by Fox News Channel.

In October 2012, his contract with the network was renewed for four years, through 2016. If completed, he would have served as head of Fox News Channel for 20 years.

Roger Ailes Richard Nixon

In 1967, Ailes had a spirited discussion about television in politics with one of the show’s guests, Richard Nixon, who took the view that television was a gimmick. Later, Nixon called on Ailes to serve as his Executive Producer for television.

Nixon’s successful presidential campaign was Ailes’s first venture into the political spotlight. His pioneering work in framing national campaign issues, capitalizing on the race-based Southern Strategy and making the stiff Nixon more likable and accessible to voters was later chronicled in The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinniss.

Roger Ailes Salary

Salary terms were not made public, although his earnings for the 2012 fiscal year were a reported $21 million inclusive of bonuses. In addition to heading Fox News and chairing Fox Television Stations, Ailes also chaired 20th Television, MyNetworkTV and Fox Business Network.

Roger Ailes Movie

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On July 6, 2016, Gretchen Carlson, a former Fox News anchor filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes. Carlson alleged that she had been fired for dismissing  Ailes’ advances. Ailes, through his attorney, Susan Estrich, denied the charges. Three days later, Gabriel Sherman reported accounts from six women -two publicly and four anonymously-who alleged sexual harassment by Ailes. In response, Ailes’ counsel released a statement: “It has become obvious that Ms. Carlson and her lawyer are desperately attempting to litigate this in the press because they have no legal case to argue. The latest allegations, all 30 to 50 years old, are false.”

Roger Ailes and Megyn Kelly

Ten days later, New York magazine reported that an internal review into Carlson’s claims had expanded into a broader review of Ailes’ stewardship. It also claimed Rupert Murdoch and his sons, Lachlan and James, had seen enough information in the preliminary review to conclude that Ailes had to go. They disagreed on the timing, however; James wanted Ailes out immediately, while Rupert and Lachlan wanted to wait until after the Republican National Convention. On July 19, New York reported that Megyn Kelly told investigators Ailes made “unwanted sexual advances toward her” at the start of her career. The magazine also reported that the Murdochs had given Ailes an ultimatum—resign by August 1 or he would be fired instead.

On July 21, 2016, Ailes resigned from Fox News, receiving $40 million from Fox in an exit agreement. Rupert Murdoch succeeded him as chairman, and as interim CEO until the naming of a permanent replacement. In a letter to Murdoch, Ailes wrote: “I will not allow my presence to become a distraction from the work that must be done every day to ensure that Fox News and Fox Business continue to lead our industry.” Ailes was thanked for his work, without mention of the allegations.

Roger Ailes Residence

The family resided in Garrison, New York, on a hilltop parcel in a home constructed of Adirondack river stone across the Hudson River from United States Military Academy at West Point.

Ailes also had residences in Cresskill, New Jersey, and Palm Beach, Florida.

Roger Ailes ACI Senior Development Corp | Putnam County

Ailes and his wife Elizabeth, through their charity, ACI Senior Development Corp., promised $500,000 toward the completion of a senior center in Cold Spring, Putnam County, New York. Local opposition to Ailes’ participation in the project arose after the publication of the sexual harassment accusations against him and in response to a Journal News report about previously undisclosed conditions attached to the proposed gift. Under those conditions, ACI would act as a general contractor for the project with no obligation to conduct competitive bidding before awarding construction management and other subcontracts.

Further, ACI was excused from any obligation to pay prevailing wages to workers on the project, workers and subcontractors would have no recourse against ACI in case of payment disputes and ACI would deliver its work without warranty. After extensive public objection to Ailes’ participation on August 2, 2016, public hearing, the Putnam County Legislature suspended the adoption of the proposed charitable donation agreement with ACI. The next day Ailes withdrew the gift.

Roger Ailes Book

Roger Ailes Book ‘Roger Ailes: Off Camera’, He frankly, and presciently, talked about the efficacy of appealing to an audience’s emotions, staying on offense and embracing television’s love of brevity, speed, and colorful language. “Whether we think it’s a good thing or not,” he wrote, we live in a “headline society now,” and “you have to be punchy and graphic in your conversation”

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n 2016, after he left Fox News, he became an adviser to the Donald Trump campaign, where he assisted with debate preparation and advised trump ahead of the presidential elections.

Roger Ailes Jewish Claims

Ailes was criticized for referring to executives of the public radio network NPR as “Nazis” for firing a news analyst, Juan Williams after Williams had made remarks considered by NPR to be offensive. Ailes apologized to a Jewish group, but not to NPR, for using the expression, writing to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL): “I was, of course, ad-libbing and should not have chosen that word, but I was angry at the time because of NPR’s willingness to censor Juan Williams for not being liberal enough … My now considered opinion ‘nasty, inflexible bigot’ would have worked better.”

Roger Ailes Death

Ailes suffered from hemophilia, a medical condition in which the body is impaired in its ability to produce blood clots, which are required to reduce bleeding.

On May 10th, He fell and hit his head at his Palm Beach, Florida home. He died a week later on May 18, 2017, just 3 days after his 77th birthday. The Palm Beach County Medical Examiner attributed his death to a subdural hematoma, aggravated by hemophilia. His wife, Elizabeth, announced his death in a statement on the Drudge Report: “I am profoundly sad and heartbroken to report that my husband, Roger Ailes, passed away this morning”.

In a 2013 book excerpt from ‘Roger Ailes: Off Camera’, Ailes spoke about facing death, saying, “Because of my hemophilia, I’ve been prepared to face death all of my life. When it comes, I’ll be fine, calm. I’ll miss life, though. Especially my family

He died on May 18, 2017, at the age of 77, after suffering a subdural hematoma, which was aggravated by his hemophilia.

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