Bill O'Reilly's accuser showed no signs of letting her multimillion-dollar windfall affect her yesterday as she spent the morning in typical New York fashion - grousing about a $4 cup of coffee.
On Madison it can be more
"It's over and I get to move on now," Andrea Mackris said a day after the 33-year-old TV producer and her former boss agreed to an out-of-court settlement reportedly worth between $2 million and $10 million for her.
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She lives on The Upper 'West' Side of Manahattan, home to the majority of this city's far out leftists!
| I guess she'll be moving on to a new job, but with a $2 - 10m windfall, no doubt she can take her time. Unless she drinks a lot of coffee... |
Yet as a pack of reporters tailed Mackris from her West Side apartment to a nearby Starbucks, the price of a grande skim latte struck the new millionaire as a bit steep. "Four bucks for a cup of coffee? What is that?" she quipped, fending off a question about whether her first move would be to jet to some fun place, like the Bahamas. "That's not what it was about, or what I was focused on," she said, adding that after reaching the settlement she merely "ordered in sushi." She and O'Reilly were mum on details of the deal that ended an embarrassing scandal for the Fox News titan.
| Whoopdy doo. He likes to talk dirty. She likes to dig gold. |
As part of the pact, Mackris agreed to drop her sexual harassment suit against O'Reilly and Fox, and O'Reilly agreed to drop his lawsuit claiming Mackris and her lawyer tried to shake down the network for $60 million. The paperwork ending the lawsuits was filed yesterday. Though O'Reilly wasn't talking, his friends scoffed at the idea Mackris pulled down a seven-figure settlement. Mackris reportedly had turned down an offer of $2 million before she filed her lawsuit. Both | "I'm just a little girl from Missouri," she said. |
sides agreed to a confidentiality clause and issued a statement Thursday that "there was no wrongdoing whatsoever by Mr. O'Reilly, Ms. Mackris or Ms. Mackris' counsel, Benedict P. Morelli & Associates." But in New York, everyone takes sides.
lol
"You should have fried him!" doorman Nelson Santiago, 33, called out when he recognized Mackris sprinting past for her morning cup of coffee. "That's nice," she laughed, a bit taken aback by the notoriety she said went so far as partygoers dressing up as her for Halloween. "It's weird. I'm just a little girl from Missouri," she said.
Now a shark in the big city
| And unemployable, to boot... |
| ... awaiting calls from publishers for her book ... |
Mackris jumped into the spotlight with her bombshell accusations that O'Reilly tormented her with unwanted phone sex, and observers speculated she had tapes to back it up. Fox spokesman Brian Lewis declined to comment on the settlement other than to say the statement of no wrongdoing "speaks for itself" and to note that Mackris is "no longer employed at Fox."
Soon to be at CNN maybe?
| Not if they have any sense. Maybe producing the weather at a UHF station in Anchorage. |
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