{"id":39800,"date":"2025-09-03T01:11:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T01:11:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:11:09","slug":"woman-at-centre-of-christian-horner-scandal-back-working-in-f1-after-red-bull-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/39800\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman at centre of Christian Horner scandal ‘back working in F1’ after Red Bull departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woman at the centre of the scandal that almost brought down Christian Horner<\/a> last year is back working in Formula One, according to a report.<\/p>\n

The ‘female employee’, as she was usually referred to in media reports, made accusations of inappropriate and coercive behaviour of a sexual nature against then Red Bull team principal Horner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She has not been named by Daily Mail Sport for legal reasons, and her identity remains a secret from the public.<\/p>\n

Daily Mail Sport exclusively revealed at the end of July<\/a> that the woman had landed a new job in motorsport, having been suspended by Red Bull following the closure of the investigations.\u00a0Horner, husband of former Spice Girl Geri Halliwell<\/a>, was cleared of misconduct by two separate investigations led by KCs.<\/p>\n

Last month,\u00a051-year-old Horner effectively left Red Bull<\/a>\u00a0after 20 years in charge, during which time he led them to 14 world titles.\u00a0He was not given an explanation for being ‘released from operational duties’.<\/p>\n

Now, though, while Horner looks for his next job, the woman, according to the BBC<\/a>, is back working in the sport she was previously involved in, having made accusations against Horner in December 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The woman who accused Christian Horner (right, pictured with wife Geri Halliwell) of inappropriate and coercive behaviour of a sexual nature is reportedly back working in Formula One<\/p>\n

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Horner, who denied the allegations, was cleared but later sacked by Red Bull<\/p>\n

The woman accused team principal Horner\u00a0<\/a>of ‘coercive behaviour’ \u2013 a claim he was cleared of in an internal inquiry before WhatsApps of a supposedly suggestive nature were leaked the following day.<\/p>\n

Horner later faced reporters and admitted that the saga had taken its toll on his family, while fending off questions on the woman at the centre of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He also said his wife Halliwell\u00a0<\/a>had been ‘hugely supportive’ but admitted the scandal had been ‘very trying’ on his family.<\/p>\n

‘It’s obviously been a very trying period,’ he said. ‘I’m married and have three children.\u00a0And when that intrusion includes your children and the scrutiny that is placed upon your marriage.<\/p>\n

‘I’m very fortunate that I have a beautiful family and very supportive wife.\u00a0 Of course, It’s very trying, it’s very challenging.\u00a0When there’s children involved, parents, families, it’s not pretty.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

He added that the grievance had been ‘dealt with in the most professional manner’ by Red Bull’s parent company GmbH, which had appointed one of the top ‘KCs in the land’.<\/p>\n

‘He interviewed all of the people involved, as well as others of interest. He looked at everything and he came to the conclusion where he dismissed the grievance. As far as I am concerned, and as far as Red Bull are concerned, we moved on and we look to the future. The time now is to draw a line under it.’<\/p>\n

A file allegedly containing texts and images was leaked to almost 200 people involved in the sport, including owners Liberty Media, team principals and the media.<\/p>\n

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The woman was suspended as a result of the investigation but is working in motorsport again<\/p>\n

Horner was exonerated for a second time after the female employee appealed against the findings of the investigation, which were upheld.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An independent lawyer interviewed Horner for almost nine hours, it is understood.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Netflix’s most recent series of its hugely-successful Drive to Survive programme revealed Horner’s immediate reaction to the bombshell news of the alleged texts being leaked.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘The higher you rise, the sharper the knives,’ he said.<\/p>\n

‘I’ve reached the top of my game and I never thought in a million years I’d have a challenge like this in my career,’ Horner continued. ‘It’s a crucial time of year, in a job that I do, you’re the front face of the organisation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

‘You can either hide away or you can get out there and face it.’\u00a0<\/p>\n

On the track, Horner defiantly responded to the scandal by helping Verstappen deliver a fourth-successive world championship, although Red Bull fell short of the constructors’ title to rivals McLaren.<\/p>\n

That appeared to be the beginning of the end of Red Bull’s sporting dominance, with McLaren now 324 points ahead of them in the constructors’ standings for the 2025 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The woman at the centre of the scandal that almost brought down Christian Horner last year is back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[3412,30478,118,18,30477,30479,19,17,119,132],"class_list":{"0":"post-39800","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-bbc","9":"tag-christian-horner","10":"tag-dailymail","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-formulaone","13":"tag-geri-halliwell","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-sport","17":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}