Two more Bill O'Reilly accusers join defamation suit against host after he labels them 'lying political operatives' - including woman he paid $9M to in wake of his lewd falafel fantasy call

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Bill O'Reilly may soon be facing off in court against a number of women who alleged that the disgraced host sexually harassed them during his time at Fox News.

Andrea Mackris, a former producer on O'Reilly's show, and former Fox Business Network host Rebecca Gomez Diamond have joined the defamation suit filed by fellow O'Reilly accuser Rachel Witlieb Bernstein.

The three women are suing O'Reilly for defamation after he made comments over the past few months suggesting that they were political operatives hell bent on taking him down as well as liars whose only goal was extortion. 

He made those claims despite the fact that he settled with Mackris for $9 million after she accused him of sexual harassment in 2004, and paid Diamond an undisclosed amount in 2011 after she too accused him of sexual harassment.

Bernstein complained about O'Reilly's harassing behavior to human resources back in 2002 and received a small payout that was far less than the other five known women whom O'Reilly settled with over the years.

In total, O'Reilly paid over $45 million to six women, including one who was awarded $32 million just this year.

O'Reilly has stated in the past he only settled so the allegations would not play out in public and bring unneeded stress to his teenage son and daughter.

His lawyer responded to the initial defamation filing by pointing out that O'|Reilly had never named one of his accusers when speaking about individuals who were out to bring him down.

Go their own way: Andrea Mackris (right) and Rebecca Gomez Diamond have joined a defamation lawsuit filed by Rachel Witlieb Bernstein against Bill O'Reilly (left)

'They are tired of being smeared with lies by a bully who thinks that his victims are afraid to answer to them,' said the lawyer for the women, Nancy Erika Smith.

'They are standing up for the truth, joining the many voices of brave women who are no longer tolerating abuse or being silenced.'

Smith previously represented Gretchen Carlson in her successful lawsuit against Fox News, landing the host a $20 million payout.

Fox News is also named as a defendant in the defamation suit. 

It was Mackris' lawsuit that made headlines when it was settled back in 2004 by the network for a formerly undisclosed sum which in April was revealed to be $9million by The New York Times.

In her complaint, Mackris claimed she had been sexually harassed by O'Reilly and detailed their phone sex conversations in which he allegedly listed off his female conquests.

O'Reilly also allegedly detailed a sex fantasy he had about Mackris using 'that little loofah thing' in the shower, but towards the end accidentally called it a 'falafel thing'.

According to the complaint, O'Reilly called Mackris one night to inform her he was watching pornography and then began to engage in phone sex fantasy about having her come to the Caribbean with him.

'So anyway I’d be rubbing your big boobs and getting your nipples really hard, kinda' kissing your neck from behind ... and then I would take the other hand with the falafel thing and I’d put it on your p***y, but you’d have to do it really light, just kind of a tease business,' said O'Reilly according to court papers filed by Mackris.

Her complaint went on to say that during his monologue O'Reilly also suggested Mackris perform oral sex on his 'big c***' and that 'it became clear that he was using a vibrator upon, himself and had ejaculated.'

When the two reached a settlement a statement was released from both parties that said 'no wrongdoing whatsoever' occurred while Mackris worked with O'Reilly.

She was also not allowed to speak about the suit in public before or after the settlement, while O'Reilly was able to say that Mackris' complaint was 'the single most evil thing I have ever experienced' to his millions of viewers.

Mackris was also written about negatively in a number of articles at the time. 

It was seven years until the next woman received a settlement, with Diamond being handed an unknown amount from O'Reilly himself according to multiple sources after confronting him with a recording of comments he had made to and about her while she worked as a host on the Fox Business Network show 'Happy Hour.' 

The payout was so secretive that 21st Century Fox was not even aware of the what had transpired between the two parties until last year, when it was revealed during an internal investigation into sexual harassment claims being brought against Ailes.

Laurie Dhue, who worked as a reporter on the television show Geraldo at Large and was the host of Fox Report Weekend for eight years between 2000 and 2008 also received a payout after accusing Ailes and O'Reilly of sexual harassment.

She received $1million over the summer from the network, shortly after she announced her plan to write a tell-all book. 

Fox News also settled with Huddy for $1.6million back in September of last year after she claimed that O'Reilly had tried to pursue a sexual relationship with her while she appeared on the network as a guest on his show. 

Huddy stated that O'Reilly would repeatedly call her at home in Long Island and once tried to kiss her, which caused her to fall over as she pulled away from the host.

Soon after she stopped being asked to appear on O'Reilly's program.

Both Dhue and Huddy's stories had been reported before, but it was not known Dhue had complained about O'Reilly's behavior in addition to Ailes.

Bernstein was the fifth woman to speak out in that story.