Former Fox News staffer Jennifer Eckhart died on Sept. 19. She was 36 years old.
Eckhart was found on Saturday morning in her Florida residence, according to a Martin County Sheriff’s Office incident report obtained by People.
Christine Christofek, a spokesperson for the sheriff’s office, announced, “This death has been ruled a suicide,” in a statement. TMZ was the first to break the news.
Eckhart was an associate producer on Fox Business. She accused the network’s anchor at the time, Ed Henry, of rape in 2020. He denied her claim.
Fox fired Henry due to sexual misconduct claims. At the time, the network wrote in a memo that it “received a complaint about Ed Henry from a former employee’s attorney involving willful sexual misconduct in the workplace years ago.”
It was determined three weeks later that his dismissal was related to Eckhart. She filed a lawsuit claiming she was “violently raped” and left “injured, bruised and battered with bloody wrists” by him.
She further alleged that the anchor requested her to be his “sex slave,” “threatened punishment and retaliation if [Eckhart] didn’t comply with his sexual demands,” and “took photos” of her “for purposes of blackmail that could destroy her career.”
Eckhart settled her lawsuit against him in 2025. Fox News was dismissed as a defendant.
“This has been an exhaustive, re-traumatizing, five-year legal battle with incredible challenges that at times I almost felt was unable to bear,” she said in a statement at the time. “With this settlement in place, a weight has now been lifted from my shoulders and my passion to support fellow trauma survivors has been renewed.”
Eckhart founded The Reinvented Project, a nonprofit aiming to help those with traumatic pasts through animal-assisted therapy. She also began a podcast, REINVENTED with Jen Eckhart, to “give a voice to the voiceless.”
“I turned pain into purpose,” Eckhart said. “I think the overarching theme, as far as this case not going to trial, is that survivors do not require validation from a courtroom to emerge stronger than what tries to break them.”
If you or someone you know is contemplating suicide or struggling with suicidal thoughts, help is available 24 hours a day through the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at 988.
If you or someone you know has been a victim of sexual assault, help is available 24 hours a day through RAINN’s National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673.
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