The woman at the center of the 2017 encounter told police that Hegseth blocked her from leaving the hotel room and assaulted her despite saying no.

Pete Hegseth, who departed Fox News last week when he was chosen as Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Defense, now faces the disclosure of new details of a 2017 encounter in which a woman told police that he sexually assaulted her at a Monterey,

The Fox News host and the woman who accused him of sexual assault were in Monterey for the 2017 California Federation of Republican Women biennial conference

Trump has indicated that the revelations about the accuser and payment have not deterred him from Hegseth's selection as defense secretary.

A police report has revealed sexual assault allegations against Pete Hegseth, a former Fox News personality and Donald Trump’s nominee to be defense secretary.

A police report filed by a woman who accused the Fox News host of assaulting her in 2017 does not, in fact, say he was cleared.

A woman told police that she was sexually assaulted in 2017 by Pete Hegseth after he took her phone, blocked the door to a California hotel room and refused to let her leave.