Bombshell was a film released in 2019 is a film based off of a real-life scandal in which the CEO of a big television company, Fox News (Roger Ailes) sexually exploited female staff.

Roger Ailes (May 15, 1940 – May 18, 2017) was a media consultant and television executive in the United States. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox News. He resigned from Fox News in July 2016 after numerous female Fox employees accused him of sexual harassment.

Gabriel Sherman claimed in a 2014 book that Ailes offered a television producer a raise if she would sleep with him in the 1980s. The allegation was refuted by Fox News, as was Sherman’s book’s legitimacy. Former Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson filed a sexual harassment complaint against Ailes on July 6, 2016, and her allegations prompted more than a dozen female employees at 21st Century Fox to speak up about their own encounters with Ailes.