Matt Lauer Fired for Sexual Misconduct

[RavenSky]

Matt Lauer, a familiar face in morning news as the anchor of "Today" for two decades, was fired by NBC News on Wednesday after a female colleague made a detailed complaint accusing him of inappropriate sexual behavior during the 2014 Sochi Olympics.

Later on Wednesday, The New York Times reported that two more women had made complaints about Lauer after he was fired; NBC officials confirmed that two more accusers had come forward on Wednesday. And Variety published a more sweeping account of Lauer's sexual misconduct with at least three women over several years.

“He couldn’t sleep around town with celebrities or on the road with random people, because he’s Matt Lauer and he’s married," a former producer told the magazine. "So he’d have to do it with his stable, where he exerted power, and he knew people wouldn’t ever complain.”

Variety said that during the course of a two-month investigation, it spoke with three women who claimed they were sexually harassed by Lauer and corroborated their stories with “dozens of interviews with current and former staffers.”

The staffers who spoke to Variety accused him of exposing himself to one woman, and then reprimanding her for not engaging in a sex act. He was also accused of giving another colleague a sex toy as a present along with “an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her.”

The article said the women complained to management, but the complaints fell on deaf ears given the lucrative advertising surrounding “Today.”

A spokesperson for NBC forcefully denied that anyone who is now in management was made aware of these complaints.

https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/s...or-matt-lauer-after-sexual-misconduct-n824831

 

[RavenSky]

In the meantime, Geraldo Rivera would do well to keep his mouth shut and his head down.

I know for a fact, based on personal experience, that Mr. Rivera is another one who used his position plus alcohol and drugs to prey on young women (while he was married and working on 20/20).

I won't be the one showing up in the news with my #MeToo story, but I don't doubt other women will be coming forward about his history.

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Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation. What about #GarrisonKeillor?