Raunchy texts between ex-Fox News anchor Ed Henry and a young female staffer revealed in a new legal filing threaten to undercut her shocking claims of rape.
A 2020 lawsuit by former Fox Business associate producer Jennifer Eckhart, 34, accused Henry, 53, of handcuffing, beating and raping her in 2017, after a campaign of predatory ‘grooming’ and ‘manipulation’.
But on Monday, Henry’s lawyers unveiled texts between the two that they claimed show an enthusiastic and ‘consensual’, albeit kinky, relationship.
Just days after she claimed he raped her, Eckhart, 34, texted Henry: ‘You wanna f*** me,’ ‘Come spread them and slide my bikini off’, ‘F***ing dirty boy. I love it,’ and ‘Want it. Badly,’ according to screenshots of text messages in his latest legal filing.
The new court papers also described 15 naked and explicit photos she allegedly sent Henry, who co-hosted the show America’s Newsroom, in the two weeks after the alleged rape.
Five of the 15 photos were not of her, but other women, Henry’s new motion stated.
