Tim Worner: Ex-mistress of Seven Network chief claims senior executive threatened her

A SENIOR Seven Network executive threatened the mistress of CEO Tim Worner, Amber Harrison, with lthe stigma of becoming “Australia’s Monica Lewinsky”, legal documents allege.

The ex-mistress of Seven Network CEO Tim Worner alleges in legal documents that she was threatened with long-term unemployment if she didn’t accept hush money.

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A SENIOR Seven Network executive threatened the mistress of CEO Tim Worner, Amber Harrison, with long-term unemployment and the stigma of becoming “Australia’s Monica Lewinsky” should she fail to accept hush money offered to her in 2014, according to allegations made by Ms Harrison in legal documents.

In her May 2015 complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission, Ms Harrison ­alleges the executive said to her: “Do you really want to be that girl and have this all come out in public? Monica Lewinsky has never recovered from her dalliance with Bill Clinton.”

Amber Harrison alleges ion legal documents that she was threatened with long term unemployment should she not accept hush money.

Seven Network CEO Tim Worner has apologised for the affair and said he feels ‘shamed’ by it.

According to the complaint, the executive further cowed Ms Harrison by reminding her of the 2010 sexual harassment case involving former sacked David Jones CEO Mark McInnes and department store publicist Kristy Fraser-Kirk.

“That girl from the David Jones case has never worked again. Do you want that to happen to you?” she allegedly said to Ms Harrison during talks aimed at persuading the former Seven West executive assistant to sign a deed of release that gave her $100,000 and a new job at Seven.

The job never eventuated.

Harrison was warned she would be labelled the new Monica Lewinsky.

“You are just some girl who slept with a guy at work. This isn’t worth more than what we are offering you,” the executive allegedly said.

Last night, Seven’s commercial director Bruce McWilliam — who Ms Harrison said confronted her on behalf of Seven West during a meeting at The Darling on November 8, 2014, with a list outlining $276,000 of alleged corporate fraud — said the four women named in Ms Harrison’s Human Rights Commission complaint had “each written to deny the allegations” and were all consulting their lawyers.

Seven chief executive Tim Worner was girlled by the board on his affair with Amber Harrison. John Feder/The Australian.

In one of Mr Worner’s texts to Ms Harrison he claimed he had been confronted about one of his alleged affairs by the then CEO of the Nine Network, David Gyngell.

“That (name deleted) thing is ridiculous. Gyngell told me! If I was to have f ... ed everyone I was supposed to have f...ed my c..k would have dropped off.”

Another of the women rumoured to have had an affair with Mr Worner was moved from one role to another after her alleged relationship with the married father ended.

Ms Harrison was last night due to appear on A Current Affair to discuss her relationship with Mr Worner but the interview failed to proceed. Nine news executives did not return calls.