In this combination photo, former Fox News contributor Wendy Walsh, left, appears at a news conference in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles on Monday, April 3, 2017, and Fox News personality Bill... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this combination photo, former Fox News contributor Wendy Walsh, left, appears at a news conference in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles on Monday, April 3, 2017, and Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly appears on the set of his show, "The O'Reilly Factor" on Oct. 1, 2015 in New York. Walsh... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on sexual-harassment allegations at Fox News (all times local): 
 
 6:45 p.m. 
 
 New York City's Commission on Human Rights says it hasn't gotten a claim calling for an investigation into Fox News host Bill O'Reilly over sexual-harassment allegations from a former guest. 
 
 Lisa Bloom is a lawyer for Wendy Walsh, a former regular on "The O'Reilly Factor." She spoke out Monday for the investigation. She says Walsh's appearances on the show stopped after she refused to go to O'Reilly's hotel room after a dinner in Los Angeles in 2013. 
 
 A spokesman for the commission says no claim has been filed. Claims have to address activity that happened in New York and must be filed within a year of an alleged infraction. 
 
 The New York Times reported over the weekend five women who said O'Reilly sexually harassed or verbally abused them have been paid $13 million since 2012. 
 
 Representatives for Fox News haven't responded to questions. 
 
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 6:15 p.m. 
 
 Car company Mercedes-Benz says it's pulling ads from Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" because of host Bill O'Reilly's sexual-harassment "controversy." 
 
 The New York Times reported over the weekend Fox News' parent company or O'Reilly have paid $13 million since 2012 to five women who said he sexually harassed or verbally abused them. 
 
 Mercedes-Benz says the allegations are "disturbing." It says given the importance of women in every aspect of its business it doesn't feel this is a good environment in which to advertise its products. 
 
 Representatives for Fox News and owner 21st Century Fox haven't responded to questions. 
 
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 2 p.m. 
 
 An attorney for a former Fox News guest is calling for an independent investigation of sexual harassment allegations against host Bill O'Reilly. 
 
 Lisa Bloom represents Wendy Walsh, a regular guest on Fox's "The O'Reilly Factor," whose appearances dried up after she refused to go to O'Reilly's bedroom following a 2013 dinner in Los Angeles. She's seeking an investigation by New York City's Commission on Human Rights. 
 
 Walsh said she came forward because she was told by a New York Times reporter that many of the women who have accused O'Reilly of harassment are bound by gag orders. She said she is not bound by any such agreement and the statute of limitations has passed for her to sue. 
 
 "Nobody can silence me because my voice is not for sale," Walsh said. "Nobody can buy my voice." 
 
 The Times reported this weekend that Fox News' parent company 21st Century Fox or O'Reilly paid $13 million to five women since 2002 to settle cases where they alleged inappropriate behavior by O'Reilly. Last year, Fox News chief Roger Ailes left the network following accusations he had made unwanted sexual advances against women. Ailes has denied the charges. 
 
 Earlier Monday, a Fox News contributor filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes, saying she was denied opportunities after she rebuffed Ailes' advances and that current management sought to keep her complaints quiet. 
 
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 12 p.m. 
 
 A Fox News contributor has filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against deposed chief executive Roger Ailes, saying she was denied opportunities after rebuffing his advances and that current management sought to keep her complaints quiet. 
 
 Julie Roginsky, the Fox contributor, said that a promised position on the Fox show "The Five" never happened after she rejected Ailes' sexual advances. 
 
 In a complaint filed in New York state Supreme Court on Monday, Roginsky said she was pressured to join "Team Roger" to defend Ailes when Gretchen Carlson filed the initial harassment complaint against him but that she refused. Roginsky is being represented by Carlson's legal team. 
 
 The lawsuit comes after a New York Times report on Saturday that Fox News' parent company 21st Century Fox or host Bill O'Reilly paid $13 million to five women since 2002 to settle cases where they alleged inappropriate behavior by O'Reilly. Ailes left the network last summer after allegations the he made unwanted sexual advances against women. Ailes has denied those charges. 
 
 Roginsky said that even though current Fox executive Bill Shine was aware of her complaint, she was never contacted by the law firm investigating harassment charges against Ailes, and has continued to be denied advancement opportunities. 
 
 A Fox News spokeswoman did not immediately return a request for comment. ||||| The anchor has hosted the No. 1 show in cable news for 15 consecutive years. 
 
 Weeks after revelations surfaced that Bill O’Reilly quietly settled several sexual harassment claims — leading to an advertiser exodus from his Fox News program — the embattled host is out of a job. The announcement came from parent 21st Century Fox. 
 
 “After a thorough and careful review of the allegations, the Company and Bill O’Reilly have agreed that Bill O’Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel," a statement read. 
 
 "Over the past 20 years at Fox News, I have been extremely proud to launch and lead one of the most successful news programs in history, which has consistently informed and entertained millions of Americans and significantly contributed to building Fox into the dominant news network in television," O'Reilly said in a statement sent by consultant Mark Fabiani. 
 
 The Fox anchor added: "It is tremendously disheartening that we part ways due to completely unfounded claims. But that is the unfortunate reality many of us in the public eye must live with today. I will always look back on my time at Fox with great pride in the unprecedented success we achieved and with my deepest gratitude to all my dedicated viewers. I wish only the best for Fox News Channel." 
 
 The news is not a complete surprise, but it is nonetheless stunning. O’Reilly, 67, has been hosting the network’s 8 p.m. program The O’Reilly Factor for two decades. And it has been the No. 1 show in cable news for 15 consecutive years, bringing in more than $400 million in ad revenue in 2014 and 2015, and $118 million in the first three quarters of 2016, according to Kantar Media. 
 
 And in recent years, O’Reilly has branched out with a series of best-selling books and spinoff TV movies on National Geographic Channel (majority owned by 21st Century Fox) that have strengthened his brand outside of Fox News, where he earns about $18 million annually. 
 
 By the time O’Reilly signed off on April 11 for a pre-planned two-week vacation, the advertiser exodus — including blue-chip brands Mercedes-Benz, Allstate, BMW, Bayer and Lexus — had reached more than 50, with most buyers reallocating their ad dollars to other Fox News programs. There was also mounting external pressure from advocacy and women’s groups, including Color of Change and the National Organization for Women, who were calling on the network to fire O'Reilly, and on advertisers to abandon his program. 
 
 But many media insiders predicted O’Reilly would survive because of his towering presence as the face of Fox News and also because the company recently renewed his deal — which was set to expire later this year — while it was aware that revelations of the settlement payment were going to be disclosed by The New York Times. 
 
 “He’s too important to the bottom line,” said one rival TV news executives prior to today’s announcement. “In some ways he’s more important to them now than [Roger] Ailes was.” 
 
 Former Fox News Channel chairman and CEO Ailes was ousted last summer, two weeks after former anchor Gretchen Carlson sued him for sexual harassment, which led to a cascade of similar allegations and an investigation by the Manhattan law firm Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. The same law firm was retained to investigate claims made against O'Reilly by former on-air contributor Wendy Walsh. Megyn Kelly was among more than a dozen women who came forward with allegations against Ailes, which she detailed in her memoir, Settle for More. 
 
 Both Ailes and O’Reilly have denied the allegations. But a deepening toxicity between Kelly and O’Reilly, Kelly’s former lead-in on Fox News, was among the many reasons Kelly decided to forgo a $100 million offer from 21st Century Fox to stay at the network and instead left for a deal with NBC News. She was said to be especially annoyed that O’Reilly publicly accused her of disloyalty for speaking out about Ailes. And in an interview on CBS This Morning in November, Kelly responded to O’Reilly’s criticism by noting: “I believe Roger Ailes made the company look bad.” 
 
 After Kelly left in January, Fox News moved quickly to put Tucker Carlson’s program into her 9 p.m. time slot. All of cable news has been lifted by the unpredictable opening months of President Donald Trump's administration, but Carlson has had an impressive early run — for the first three months of the year, Tucker Carlson Tonight averaged 3.27 million viewers. 
 
 It was the second-most-watched show in cable news for the quarter, behind only The O’Reilly Factor, which had its best quarter ever, with 3.98 million viewers. But now, Fox News is without its primetime linchpin. And it’s unclear if a second transition will be as seamless. 
 
 The internal memo sent Wednesday signed by the Murdochs is below. ||||| In this combination photo, former Fox News contributor Wendy Walsh, left, appears at a news conference in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles on Monday, April 3, 2017, and Fox News personality Bill... (Associated Press) 
 
 In this combination photo, former Fox News contributor Wendy Walsh, left, appears at a news conference in the Woodland Hills section of Los Angeles on Monday, April 3, 2017, and Fox News personality Bill O'Reilly appears on the set of his show, "The O'Reilly Factor" on Oct. 1, 2015 in New York. Walsh... (Associated Press) 
 
 NEW YORK (AP) — A Fox News contributor came forward to level more sexual-harassment allegations against deposed chief executive Roger Ailes on Monday, two days after it was revealed the network's most popular on-air personality, Bill O'Reilly, has settled multiple complaints about his own behavior with women. 
 
 O'Reilly was due to return to the air on Monday following a weekend report in The New York Times that he and his employer had paid five women $13 million to settle allegations of sexual harassment or other inappropriate conduct by Fox's ratings king. 
 
 Meanwhile, the lawyer for another woman who says she was punished for rebuffing O'Reilly's advances called on New York City's Human Rights Commission to investigate O'Reilly's behavior. 
 
 The new lawsuit against Ailes was brought by Fox's Julie Roginsky and is notable because it accuses Fox's current management of trying to cover up for Ailes. 
 
 Roginsky said Ailes, who lost his job last summer following sexual-harassment complaints he has denied, suggested she have sex with "older, married, conservative men." She said Ailes would insist upon a kiss hello at their meetings, requiring her to bend over so he could look down her dress. 
 
 She was seeking a permanent role on Fox's show "The Five." But after an April 2015 meeting at which she turned down Ailes' advances, he wouldn't meet with her again, and she never got the regular role, she said. 
 
 Later, she said, she was pressured to join Team Roger, a group of people who publicly defended Ailes when the first harassment complaint made public against the Fox boss was brought by Gretchen Carlson last summer. Roginsky refused. 
 
 She said that even though Fox executives knew she had her own harassment allegations against Ailes, she was never encouraged to speak to the law firm hired by Fox News parent 21st Century Fox to investigate claims against him. And she said Fox never looked into her charges. Her lawyer would not say Monday why Roginsky never contacted the firm on her own. 
 
 Roginsky said that during a meeting in December, new Fox top executive Bill Shine told her he didn't believe the allegations against Ailes until recently. But the lawsuit alleges Shine and other top Fox executives should have known about Ailes' behavior much earlier. 
 
 "Shine and other senior executives kept Ailes' conduct secret and enabled it," said the lawsuit, filed in state court. 
 
 Fox News representatives did not immediately return messages for comment. 
 
 Roginsky said she believes Shine hasn't given her an opportunity for advancement in retaliation for her harassment complaint and her refusal to speak out against Carlson. 
 
 At a Los Angeles news conference Monday, lawyer Lisa Bloom detailed allegations against O'Reilly by Wendy Walsh, a regular guest on the prime-time show "The O'Reilly Factor." 
 
 Bloom said O'Reilly had told Walsh he would recommend her for a paid contributor role on the network. Walsh and O'Reilly had dinner in Los Angeles in 2013, but when Walsh refused his invitation to go to his hotel room, his attitude changed and she was soon dropped from the show, according to Walsh. 
 
 Bloom was seeking an investigation by the city Human Rights Commission. A spokesman for the commission said no claim had been filed. Claims have to address activity that happened within the city's five boroughs and must be filed within one year of an alleged infraction. 
 
 Walsh said she came forward because she was told by a Times reporter that many of the women who have accused O'Reilly of harassment are bound by gag orders. She said she is not bound by any such agreement, and the statute of limitations for suing has run out. 
 
 "Nobody can silence me because my voice is not for sale," Walsh said. "Nobody can buy my voice." 
 
 O'Reilly said over the weekend he is vulnerable to lawsuits from people who threaten to cause him bad publicity unless they get paid. He said he had "put to rest any controversies" to spare his children. 
 
 O'Reilly's ratings have gone up over the past year with the intense interest in politics. Independent studies show he generates more than $100 million in advertising revenue per year for TV's top-rated cable news network. But at least one advertiser, car company Mercedes-Benz, said it was pulling its ads from the show because of the "disturbing" allegations. 
 
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 Associated Press writer Anthony McCartney in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
– After two decades, Bill O'Reilly is officially out at Fox News, the Los Angeles Times reports. In a statement issued Wednesday, 21st Century Fox announced the end of the longtime host's tenure "after a thorough and careful review of the allegations." It was reported earlier this month that O'Reilly and Fox News had paid $13 million to women accusing O'Reilly of sexual abuse and harassment dating back to 2002. More claims and accusations followed that story, and The O'Reilly Factor lost more than 50 of its advertisers, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Still, many experts thought O'Reilly would be able to weather the storm. He's had the top-rated cable news show for 15 years and was a huge moneymaker for Fox News. The Los Angeles Times reports Fox News could lose as much as 25% of its prime-time audience with the removal of O'Reilly. The host is currently on vacation in Italy (where he met Pope Francis on Wednesday, according to the New York Times). He was expected to return to his show on Monday. It's believed Fox News will name a permanent replacement for O'Reilly before then.