Jodie Fisher costs Mark Hurd his job as HP CEO over fraud, sex scandal

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It was Jodie Fisher from The Age of Love, not the Actress Jodie Foster.

On Friday, Mark Hurd lost his job as CEO of Hewlett Packard over allegations of fraud and a sex scandal involving a sexual harassment claim that an HP investigation revealed to be baseless. HP fired Hurd for falsifying documents to cover up his relationship with Fisher.

Now, after Mark Hurd lost his job and annual compensation that was as high as $42 million in 2009, it was revealed on Sunday that Actress Jodie Fisher, 50, was the woman at the center of the sex scandal claims.

According to The New York Daily News, Fisher says she's "sorry" Hurd lost his job over the issue, and that they never had sex.

Fisher said she knew Hurd via event organizing functions for HP, where she was paid $5,000 per event to greet and then introduce executives. Apparently, it wasn't enough because whatever the details behind her sexual harassment claim, Mark Hurd paid her off and for an undisclosed sum. So, now Fisher says there wasn't any sex involved and she's "sorry," but given the payoff from Mark Hurd and the paltry money she was making before, why should anyone believe her claims?

It's obvious there's more to this story than we know and the two people who really know the truth, Fisher and Hurd, aren't talking.