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by Ken Meyer | 9:01 am, November 29th, 2017
Page Six has published a new report claiming that Matt Lauer sexually assaulted a female staffer during the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. This comes shortly after the TODAY anchor was fired from NBC after becoming the latest public figure to be accused of sexual misconduct.
According to Page Six, Lauer was fired after a network employee complained to NBC chiefs about an incident that happened when they were covering the games last year in Brazil. An NBC staffer come forward with a claim that Matt sexually assaulted her at the Olympics, a source said. There have been rumors about Matt having affairs with subordinates at NBC for years, but those were believed to be consensual. This incident in Rio was not.
When NBC announced that Lauer was fired from the network this morning, they released a statement where they hinted that there was the reason to believe his sexual misconduct towards a female co-worker was not a single occurrence. While it is the first complaint about his behavior in the over twenty years hes been at NBC News, the network said, we were also presented with reason to believe this may not have been an isolated incident.
After the news broke, there were rumors among media figures that several news outlets are preparing to release stories about the victims of Lauers sexual abuse. It is quite possible those reports will be released in the coming days.
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MontanaMama
(23,319 posts)How many of these cast offs will Faux be able to hire?
underpants
(182,823 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)Now that the access Hollywood video is fake, it's time to bring back Billy Bush...right?
Good one.
JenniferJuniper
(4,512 posts)about this assault that happened over a year ago? And "not an isolated incident"?
My own guess is many of these employers have had complaints that they chose to ignore until now.