Maria Bartiromo, one of Fox News Media’s most prominent business anchors, has left the network after nearly 13 years.
Her final program aired Thursday morning on Fox Business, with Cheryl Casone filling in for Bartiromo, 58.
Bartiromo, known as the first journalist to deliver daily live reports from the New York Stock Exchange, had not appeared on air since August 9. Fox said Thursday marked her last day with the company.
Fox News Media, the channel’s parent company, confirmed her departure in a press release issued later that morning, roughly an hour after her final show aired.
‘We thank Maria for her work over the last 12 ½ years and wish her all the best on her next chapter,’ a spokesperson said in the press release.
The release further noted how Bartiromo’s Fox Business show will now be hosted by a rotating cast of anchors. The show itself is being renamed Mornings With Fox Business.
Her other Fox Business show, Maria Bartiromo’s Wall Street, will have her name stripped from it as well, the company said.
It is unclear if Bartiromo resigned or if she was pushed out of her role. She was offered no fanfare on Thursday’s Mornings with Maria. The Daily Mail has approached Fox News for comment.
Maria Bartiromo, pictured in 2024, has dramatically exited Fox News after almost 13 years at the popular cable network
Maria Bartiromo is pictured with Donald Trump in 2024. The Fox News host exited the network on Thursday
Court documents from a 2025 defamation lawsuit against Fox revealed she took in an eyewatering $70 million since joining Fox from CNBC in 2014. She joined the latter in 1993 after being hired by then-CNBC President and future Fox exec Roger Ailes.
Ailes resigned from Fox in 2016, after former Fox News host Gretchen Carlson accused him of sexual harassment. Bartiromo became regular target of criticism around that time, due to her kind coverage of Donald Trump.
Such coverage was vital to the defamation claims made by Dominion Voting Systems, in a different lawsuit that Fox News ended up settling for $787.5 million.
Bartiromo allowed false claims about the 2020 presidential election to air in an effort to keep viewers, the lawsuit claimed.
During a broadcast that aired in December 2020, Bartiromo declared that an ‘intel source’ told her ‘President Trump did in fact win the election.’
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More recently, in June, Bartiromo welcomed a fiery rant from White House trade adviser Peter Navarro hat credited former National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) head Anthony Fauci with creating the coronavirus.
The reasons for the split, meanwhile, remain shrouded – but the brief, curt release is somewhat telling.
The longtime Fox star’s bio has been completely scrubbed from the network’s website as well.
It is unclear if Bartiromo resigned or if she was pushed out of her role. She was offered no fanfare on Thursday’s Mornings with Maria
As news of her surprise exit rang out, Vice President JD Vance downplayed rumors that she was in line to replace Karoline Leavitt as the next White House press secretary.
‘I don’t know, man,’ he told a reporter who asked with a laugh. ‘No, I don’t think so.’
Her hiring from CNBC came at a high-point in her career, when she was dubbed the ‘Money Honey’ for reporting from the male-dominated floor of the Stock Exchange.
At the time, CNBC celebrated her in a statement. It asserted: ‘Her contributions to CNBC are too numerous to list but we thank her for all of her hard work over the years and wish her the best.’
At the time, few were convinced the then-six-year-old Fox Business could stand up to CNBC. Now, the former regularly outperforms the latter.
Bartiromo – the daughter of an OTB betting clerk and Brooklyn restaurateur raised in Bay Ridge – was integral to that success.
During a 2019 interview with the LA Times, she recalled the first time she was fired.
She said she was cut as a coat check person in her father’s restaurant for trying on patrons’ items before putting them back.
‘I cried the whole way home, but I learned a valuable lesson and that is – do your job,’ she said at the time.
Bartiromo went on to work at CNN Business News for five years as a producer, writer, and assignment editor, before joining CNBC.