Lawyers for defiant Roger Ailes reveal ousted Fox News chairman paid NO money toward Gretchen Carlson's $20 million sexual harassment settlement

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Former Fox News president Roger Ailes didn't pay any of the $20 million settlement in a sexual harassment lawsuit against him, his attorneys have revealed.

21st Century Fox agreed to pay the sum to former network anchor Gretchen Carlson and apologized to her on Tuesday. 

Her lawsuit named Ailes, not Fox News, as a defendant. But Ailes' attorneys told the New York Times Tuesday he had not contributed a dollar to the payment.

Ailes resigned from Fox News in July after Carlson went public with her allegations. He hasn't spoken out publicly since. 

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Former Fox News president Roger Ailes (pictured in July) didn't pay any of the $20 million settlement in a sexual harassment lawsuit against him, his attorneys have revealed

Carlson (pictured) claimed in the lawsuit that Ailes cancelled her show when she rebuffed his sexual advances. Ailes says he will not be paying any portion of the settlement

'We sincerely regret and apologize for the fact that Gretchen was not treated with the respect that she and all our colleagues deserve,' the statement from 21st Century Fox, Fox News' parent company, reads.

Carlson claimed in the lawsuit that Ailes cancelled her show when she rebuffed his sexual advances.

Ailes' attorneys have denied the allegations against him. 

Now a source has told CNN Money that Fox made payouts to a 'handful' of women over alleged harassment by Ailes.

The insider added that the payouts were 'substantially' smaller than the one made to Carlson, but did not reveal the exact number or their total value.

More than 20 women spoke with the lawyers about inappropriate behavior by Ailes with some retaining legal counsel, CNN reports. 

21st Century Fox agreed to pay the sum to Carlson (left) and apologized to her on Tuesday. Ailes (right) resigned in July and hasn't spoken publicly since

Carlson issued a public statement through 21st Century Fox, saying she was 'gratified' with the 'decisive action' on Ailes. 

'I’m ready to move on to the next chapter of my life in which I will redouble my efforts to empower women in the workplace,' she said.

In exchange, Carlson has agreed to drop the lawsuit against Ailes and will not bring up any new suits against the company or any of its employees.  

Carlson voluntarily dropped the lawsuit against her former boss in a new court filing, Reuters confirmed.

It was also announced on Tuesday that Ailes-supporter Greta Van Sustern is leaving the network. Her hour-long spot on the network will be filled by Brit Hume, Fox News senior political analyst.

Like many anchors at the network, Van Sustern had a clause in her contract allowing her to renegotiate her contract if Ailes left the network. She decided to exercise that right, and when the negotiations deadlocked, she decided to leave.

'Fox has not felt like home to me for a few years and I took advantage of the clause in my contract which allows me to leave now,' Van Sustern said in a statement. 

Fox News is settling the lawsuit on behalf of Ailes, just two months after the longtime CEO and president of the network was forced to resign in the wake of the allegations.  

After Carlson went public with her claims against Ailes in July, several other women spoke to outside lawyers hired by Fox News with similar stories of sexual harassment.  

Carlson co-anchored Fox & Friends for seven years before she left to anchor her own one-hour program for the network. That show, The Real Story with Gretchen Carlson, was cancelled this year. She tweeted on July 6 that she was no longer with the network, and that day she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Ailes.

In the lawsuit, Carlson claimed she was fired from her own program for refusing Ailes' sexual advances.