Alycia Lane, Former Philadelphia Anchor, Sues Network That Fired Her

PHILADELPHIA — A fired Philadelphia newscaster sued her former employer Thursday, alleging that the television station maliciously damaged her reputation and contributed to a number of her embarrassing off-camera episodes.

Alycia Lane sued KYW-TV in Philadelphia Common Pleas Court, alleging the station and its management deliberately got her personal life into the news in order to get free publicity. She is seeking unspecified damages.

A KWY spokeswoman told The Philadelphia Inquirer that the station has not seen the complaint and had no comment. A call by The Associated Press seeking comment was not immediately returned.

Lane was fired in January, a month after being arrested in New York City following a late-night scuffle with plainclothes police. In her lawsuit, she said she believed she was witnessing an assault on her boyfriend.

The lawsuit says the station told Lane to interview TV psychologist Phil McGraw in 2004 and suggested that she talk about some of her past relationships. She said she understood that inappropriate personal elements would be removed and was mortified when footage of her crying about her divorce was included. She said that she did not want to appear on McGraw's show a second time, but that the station ordered her to do so.

The suit says that because of those decisions, Lane "was branded in the press as someone who sought to make herself the news, rather than to merely report the news."

Lane was also previously the target of critical news coverage after it was reported she had e-mailed photos of herself in a bikini to married NFL Network sports anchor Rich Eisen.

She said in the lawsuit that she sent the photo to Eisen because they were curious about whether someone else in the picture had met him.

Lane's suit also alleges that the station's management had a pattern of "deep-seated gender-discriminatory animus" toward female employees.

Lane's former co-anchor, Larry Mendte, isn't listed as a defendant. The FBI searched his home and removed a computer last month following allegations that someone might be reading Lane's e-mail messages.

Comments

[mediamarv]

Shine that pole, you're up next!

[dp53]

what a freaking putz...but nice hair

[fishsandwichesr2good]

I can't understand the negative reaction against this woman. Come on people, slutts have rights too. (Yes, I know about the misspelling, but the huffpoops have apparently installed a naughty word filter.)

[dp53]

yes...I had to "rewrite" my comment as well,,,ooo­ohh...dirt­y words...

[javaman]

news porn

[Raymondf]

I hate the "foxy" label, why not beautiful, or lovely instead.

[jubo]

'Foxy'... in a Praying Mantis sort of way.

[speakyourmind]

"groovy" too?

[hwebb54]

Foxy??? Sexist much?

[jubo]

Bestial.

[GrandeLatte]

You hit a cop, you're in trouble. Period. Brace yourself!

[SgtLucifer]

American woman, stay away from me !!! American women are the freak shows of the 21st century. Every man is a mysogynist, ... right, right, right.

[truthyguy]

Let me guess. She is white, so the race card is off the table. I guess that leaves the gender card.

[cungar]

Foxy? I haven't heard that word since I used to watch the Flip Wilson show in the 70's.

[joedawg88]

You call her foxy; I call her a conniving bigot.

[Leota2]

Did that headline really say FOXY?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WTF is wrong with Huff to do that? Get it together--this place
is starting to sound like FOX News.

[liarsliar]

You can always read the NY Post if you don't like it!

[Leota2]

It's called STANDARDS liar . . . .
This is supposed to be a progressive blog!
So you telling me to read The Post is just a bit idiotic
as the The Post is Fox in written form.
Hmmmm, I'm a bit embarrassed for you.

[bazokbros]

Let's not forget here, Alycia Lane slapped a cop because she was so out of control when he pulled her over for erratic driving. Alycia is in the same category as a victim to get behind as a Tawana Brawley. She can't blame her behavior on the news station. When a person such as Alycia Lane is doing handstands on the beach in a thong bikini and sending bikini pics of herself to a married man, she's nothing more than eye candy and sexuality and she knows that's how she got to where she was in her career. Definitely this is not the woman to get behind as a women's lib figure. See Alycia Lane below:


http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5140/attentionwhorekc8.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.derrich.com/tag/alycia-lane/&h=271&w=200&sz=16&hl=en&start=91&um=1&tbnid=OkYCrk7cpEDTdM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=83&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dalycia%2Blane%2Bbikini%26start%3D80%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26newwindow%3D1%26safe%3Doff%26rlz%3D1T4GGIH_enUS279US280%26sa%3DN

[WmC]

From the little I know about the situation, her law suit sounds like it's going nowhere. . .but it'll probably get her a spread on Playboy, which was probably her motive all along.

[mediamarv]

Is that "a" spread or "to" spread???

[blastocyst]

if i must

[MTiffany]

For what it's worth, and this is only my opinion here...

As a resident of the Philly area, I've never really found any of the KYW on-air 'news' 'talent' to be anything more than a collection of hairdos and big boobs.