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Fox Slaps Gene Simmons With Lifetime Ban: Report
The Kiss rocker was at the Fox building to promote a new book, but instead reportedly made offensive jokes and harassed employees.
MANHATTAN, NY — Kiss rocker Gene Simmons was slapped with a lifetime ban from News Corp.’s Manhattan headquarters after he harassed employees and made offensive jokes on Wednesday, The Daily Beast reported.
Simmons was in the building Wednesday to appear on “Fox and Friends” in the morning and plug his new book “On Power” in an interview with Fox’s digital entertainment arm, the report said.
After he appeared on the morning show, Simmons made his way to the 14th floor where he was supposed to do the interview. Instead, according to the report, Simmons barged into a staff meeting, opened his shirt and yelled, “hey chicks, sue me!”
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He then told jokes about Michael Jackson and pedophilia and tapped some of the employees on the head with his book, according to The Daily Beast.
His behavior was reported to a Fox human-resources supervisor, the report said, and he was permanently banned from the building and from Fox programming.
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