it gets worse?!....new revelation from Ronan Farrow's book reveal Matt Lauer rape....

[NewtonMP2100]

......excerpts from Ronan Farrow's book.....reveal that Matt Lauer *nally raped employee [ she said he just 'did it' not even using lubricant, rawdoggin' it, and despite her protests ] at Sochi Olympics while she was drunk at the time.....

.....she continued to see him afterwards......3 years later she confided in Today co-host Meredith Vieira who urged her to report to HR....she did.....

.....she left NBC in 2018 [ allegedly because people found out it was her ] with a seven figure payout.....


Former NBC staffer accuses Matt Lauer of rape in Ronan Farrow's new book

.....When NBC News fired Matt Lauer two years ago, the network said an employee accused him of "inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace."

Now that employee, Brooke Nevils, is speaking publicly for the first time. And Nevils is saying that Lauer raped her. The disturbing account is detailed in "Catch & Kill," a book by Ronan Farrow that comes out next Tuesday.

Representatives for Lauer have not yet responded to CNN's requests for comment about the allegations.

Variety magazine published excerpts from Farrow's book, including quotes from Nevils, on Tuesday evening.

NBC News responded by saying, in a statement, "Matt Lauer's conduct was appalling, horrific and reprehensible, as we said at the time. That's why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint. Our hearts break again for our colleague."

Lauer's former show, the "Today" show, covered the new reporting from Variety on Wednesday morning.

"This is shocking. And appalling. and I honestly don't even know what to say about it," Savannah Guthrie said on the air.

These "are not allegations of an affair, they're allegations of a crime," Hoda Kotb said.

"We're disturbed to our core," Guthrie added.

.@savannahguthrie and @hodakotb respond to new allegations about Matt Lauer pic.twitter.com/HsngSZd1NA
— TODAY (@TODAYshow) October 9, 2019

Nevils told Farrow in an interview that the rape occurred while she was in Sochi, Russia, covering the 2014 Winter Olympics.

She says it happened after a night of drinking with Lauer and others at a hotel bar. Nevils said she had six shots of vodka. Lauer invited her up to his room but, according to Farrow, Nevils said she "had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience."

Nevils told Farrow that once in the room, Lauer forced himself onto her and raped her.

"It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent," Nevils said. "It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn't want to have an*l sex."

Nevils also told Farrow that she and Lauer later had sexual encounters that were consensual. "It was completely transactional. It was not a relationship," she said.

Nevils did not immediately report the alleged attack to NBCUniversal executives. She told Farrow that she confided in former "Today" host Meredith Vieira three years later, and Vieira urged her to get a lawyer and speak with NBC human resources.

Nevils did, and her attorney said that NBC took swift action at that point.

"My client and I met with representatives from NBC's Human Resources and Legal Department at 6pm on Monday," Nevils' attorney Ari Wilkenfeld said at the time. "Over the course of several hours, my client detailed egregious acts of sexual harassment and misconduct by Mr. Lauer. In fewer than than 35 hours, NBC investigated and removed Mr. Lauer. Our impression at this point is that NBC acted quickly and responsibly, as all companies should when confronted with credible allegations about sexual misconduct in the workplace."

After he was terminated, Lauer said in a statement, "There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry." He said that "some of what is being said about me is untrue or mischaracterized, but there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed. I regret that my shame is now shared by the people I cherish dearly."

After the news of his firing broke, multiple news outlets published stories with other allegations of harassment by Lauer.

But no allegation of rape had emerged until now.

Nevils has not responded to a request for further comment from CNN.

Her account is sure to prompt new questions about whether she felt protected by NBC. Farrow reports that she left the network in 2018 with a payout in the "seven figures."

NBC News chairman Andy Lack said in a statement on Wednesday morning, "Our highest priority is to ensure we have a workplace environment where everyone feels safe and protected. We are absolutely committed to making this a reality - there can be no exception."


it just gets.......worse......?!

[rjmacs]

I can't say I'm surprised. He sounds very much the predator.

[PeterW]

“But you might feel better if they gave you some cash”

[Kraniac]

Matt Lauer should be in jail..it's strangely easy to veer towards making jokes about these celebrities and their phony worlds, big payouts by these companies, all the crap that goes on in the name of keeping names 'clean', it's all so disgusting, these people that assume license like this should go to jail..more so because of the privilege they assume and that the public actually gives them via worship and awe.

As for the victim...i can only wonder why the fuck she didnt turn around smack the piss out of this chump- scratch his face to shreds..it's Matt Lauer... fuck that guy.

..I never liked that fuck, even before any of this ever came out...early days..he struck me as being completely full of shit, a total puke trigger.

[NewtonMP2100]

.....it looks like NBC hid it.....until she got a lawyer....

....Farrow reported that Nevils told “colleagues and superiors at NBC,” but nothing happened until the Harvey Weinstein case spurred a MeToo movement. It was in that aftermath that Viera urged her to get a lawyer and go to NBC Universal human resources. Farrow’s book claims that NBC News President Noah Oppenheim and Andrew Lack, the chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, emphasized that the incident had not been “criminal” or an “assault.” Nevils claimed their comments caused her to throw up......

[Lemon Drop]

Good for Ronan Farrow for staying after this story all these years. This onion's got a lot of layers and none of them are good.


It was September 2017, and Harvey Weinstein was huddled at a corner table at New York's Loews Regency hotel alongside Dylan Howard, chief content officer of National Enquirer publisher American Media Inc. Weinstein had become increasingly alarmed about a story that Ronan Farrow — then a correspondent for NBC News and most famous for being the son of Mia Farrow and Woody Allen — was vigorously pursuing about the powerful producer's long-rumored sexual predations. Weinstein had worked to suppress variations of that story for decades, and he was desperate for it to stay secret. But Farrow (along with a team at The New York Times) was closing in. Weinstein wanted to bully NBC News into killing the story. He needed leverage.

Howard pulled out several thick manila envelopes and laid out their contents on the table. The men huddled for hours, strategizing quietly. Weinstein had found a pressure point: Matt Lauer.

"Weinstein made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer's behavior and capable of revealing it," Farrow writes in his long-awaited new book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators (Little, Brown and Company, Oct. 15).

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/featur...er-1246149

[NewtonMP2100]

.....he is issuing denial....saying it was a mutual relationship....his words are....they had 'or*l, v*gin*l and *nal sex' but it was consensual......it says it was a long time 'affair'......

[JPK]

I think you meant to say "or*l"

John P. Kelly

[Bill in NC]

Nothing more...in a legal sense...is going to happen to Lauer.

He'll just have to console himself with his remaining $60 million (that's after his divorce settlement)

[Lemon Drop]

Bill in NC wrote:
Nothing more...in a legal sense...is going to happen to Lauer.

He'll just have to console himself with his remaining $60 million (that's after his divorce settlement)

That's what Harvey Weinstein (who has a lot more money) thought. He's out of on bail awaiting a January criminal trial on five sex crimes, one dates back to 2006.