Longtime television sports firebrand Skip Bayless is accused of making repeated unwanted sexual advances and offering $1.5 million to have sex with a former Fox Sports hairstylist, according to a lawsuit filed by the woman.

The lawsuit, filed Friday in Los Angeles, accuses Bayless, then a Fox Sports host, of trying to pressure plaintiff Noushin Faraji into a sexual relationship, including allegedly offering her $1.5 million for sex after she told him of a cancer scare in 2021.

The lawsuit was first reported by Front Office Sports.

NBC News does not typically identify people who allege sexual misconduct unless they have publicly identified themselves, as Faraji has done in the lawsuit. 

In a statement, Fox Sports said: “We take these allegations seriously and have no further comment at this time given this pending litigation.”

An attorney for Bayless did not immediately respond to an email and text message seeking comment Monday.

The lawsuit also names popular host Joy Taylor, accusing her of telling the plaintiff to “get over it” when Fox Sports 1 executive Charlie Dixon allegedly groped her at a party. Taylor and Dixon did not immediately respond to requests for comment Monday.

The suit alleges that Faraji, who it says worked both on a part-time and then full-time basis at Fox starting in 2012 until her firing in 2024, began working with Bayless in late 2016 while he was co-hosting the show “Undisputed,” after he requested she do his hair. Taylor was the moderator on the show.

Soon after requesting weekly haircuts, Bayless began initiating unwanted touching in the form of lingering hugs in which he would put his body against Faraji’s and press against her breasts, according to the suit. That turned into kisses on the cheeks and inappropriate comments, including calling Faraji “voluptuous,” the lawsuit alleges.

“Mr. Bayless then started being more aggressive and direct in his advances. Ms. Faraji continuously declined, stating that she did not date at work as she is a single mom and needed her job,” the suit states.

After discussing the issue with a co-worker, both decided it would be detrimental to report the situation, since Fox “protected powerful men,” according to the suit.

Instead, the suit states, Faraji decided to be kind toward Bayless or risk losing her job: “As a single mother who relied on her job to support her son, Ms. Faraji felt that she had no choice.”

Bayless continued making sexual advances over the years, which Faraji would decline by making excuses regarding her son, changing the subject or making jokes, the suit says.

In 2021, after being told that an issue with one of her ovaries could be cancer, Faraji allegedly explained the situation to Bayless in hopes that he’d “take pity on her and cease his advances.” Instead, Bayless told her he wanted to be with her, began kissing her hands and offered her $1.5 million to have sex with him, the legal filing alleges.

Faraji made an excuse to leave, the suit says.

Around June 2024, before his departure from the network, Bayless allegedly told Faraji that he fantasized about sex with her and asked how much money it would take for her to acquiesce, to which Faraji responded by replying that she had already refused his $1.5 million offer and her answer would not change.

“The more you say no the more I want you,” Bayless replied, according to the suit.

Faraji and Taylor’s friendship began in March 2016 after Taylor moved to Los Angeles from Miami, the lawsuit says.

At a January 2017 birthday party for Taylor, Dixon — who had allegedly been “heavily drinking” — placed his arm on Faraji’s lower back before “rubbing her body and grabbing her buttocks,” the suit states. Faraji faked a call to get out of the situation, according to the suit, and told Taylor what had allegedly happened.

“Surprisingly, Ms. Taylor responded to ‘get over it’ and explained that she herself only had her job because of Mr. Dixon and that Ms. Faraji only had her job because Ms. Taylor requested her,” the filing claims. “She warned that Mr. Dixon could take both away.”

Another co-worker also advised Faraji to keep quiet, the suit alleges.

“At this point, Ms. Faraji seeks justice,” the lawsuit states. “She knows that Mr. Dixon used his position of power to coerce women into having sex with him and used it as justification to grope Ms. Faraji.”

The lawsuit also alleges a hostile work environment on the basis of sex, race or national origin, and disability, as well as negligence, retaliation and wrongful termination.

The suit alleges Faraji and Taylor’s friendship ended in late 2021, after which Taylor began insulting the plaintiff, who is of Iranian descent, on a “personal and professional level.”

In 2023, Taylor “began openly mocking Ms. Faraji’s English” and complaining about her humming — a coping mechanism for Faraji’s post-traumatic stress disorder — the suit states.

Faraji was fired shortly after Bayless left the network, and given a false pretext for her termination, according to the suit.

“Despite Ms. Faraji being an excellent hairdresser and continuously being requested by talent, she was shrunken down to how much she could appease Mr. Bayless, and once Mr. Bayless was gone, so was her job,” the lawsuit says.

Bayless left Fox Sports last year and currently hosts “The Skip Bayless Show” podcast. Taylor currently hosts the FS1 show “Speak.”

The plaintiff is seeking equitable damages, compensatory damages, emotional damages, punitive damages and attorneys’ fees through a jury trial.

The suit also includes class-action allegations, and claims Fox employees were not paid for all of their hours worked, compensated for overtime or reimbursed for business expenses.