Fox shelled out an eye-popping $70 million to Maria Bartiromo, who built her profile giving softball interviews to Donald Trump, according to newly unsealed documents.

The MAGA-obsessed anchor of Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures and Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria and Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street is one of the people named in the $2.7 billion defamation lawsuit brought by voting machine company Smartmatic against Fox Corp.

Newly released documents in the lawsuit have shed light on behind-the-scenes discussions between key anchors and executives at the Rupert Murdoch-owned network in the weeks after the 2020 election—and exposed Bartiromo’s hefty paycheck.

Bartiromo, 58, took home over $70 million during her years at Fox News, The Guardian reported, citing her deposition in the case

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