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Oct 11, 2019 · In a meeting with NBC officials in November 2017, former NBC News producer Brooke Nevils "unambiguously" described being raped by former "Today" host Matt Lauer without explicitly using that term ...
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Dec 16, 2022 · In Ronan Farrow 's 2019 book, Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Brooke Nevils, a former NBC News employee, alleged that former Today co-anchor Matt Lauer raped her ...
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- Nov. 27, 2017: A Complaint Is Filed Against Matt Lauer
- Nov. 28, 2017: NBC Launches An Investigation Against Matt Lauer
- Nov. 29, 2017: Matt Lauer Is Fired from Today
- Nov. 29, 2017: More Allegations Against Matt Lauer Are Brought to Light
- Nov. 29, 2017: NBC Releases A Statement About Matt Lauer
- Nov. 30, 2017: Matt Lauer Breaks His Silence on Allegations
- Dec. 14, 2017: Addie Zinone Details Her Alleged Affair with Matt Lauer
- July 9, 2019: Matt Lauer's Wife, Annette Roque, Files For Divorce
- Sept. 6, 2019: Matt Lauer and Annette Roque's Divorce Is Finalized
- Oct. 8, 2019: Brooke Nevils Details Matt Lauer's Alleged Rape
At 6 p.m., Ari Wilkenfeld, a civil rights lawyer with the firm Wilkenfeld, Herendeen & Atkinson in Washington, and his client, an anonymous NBC employee, met with representatives from NBC's human resources and legal departments to detail a complaint against Lauer. The interview lasted several hours, Wilkenfeld confirmed to The New York Times. "Our ...
An investigation ensued, and a decision was made to end his employment. A source confirmed to PEOPLE that Lauer was informed of his termination on Tuesday evening.
Today employees found out about Lauer's firing just hours before going live for Wednesday's show. At the top of the 7 a.m. hour, Lauer's visibly shaken co-anchor Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb announced the news,reading aloud a staff memo from NBC News chairman Andrew Lack. "On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about i...
More allegations were brought against him throughout the day in reports published by Variety and The New York Times. The most serious allegation was brought forth in the Times, which reports that NBC received at least two more complaints related to Lauer on Wednesday. One complaint came from a former NBC employee who alleged Lauer sexually assaulte...
In response to the Wednesday reports, an NBC spokesperson told PEOPLE in a statement, "We can say unequivocally, that, prior to Monday night, current NBC News management was never made aware of any complaints about Matt Lauer's conduct." NBC correspondent Stephanie Gosk, who had been reporting on the story for the Todayshow, said during Megyn Kelly...
Lauer — who joined the network in 1992 as a newsreader on Today, had been co-anchor of the morning show since January 1997 and reportedly signed a $20 million dollar contractlast year — broke his silence on the allegations in a statement read Thursday morning by his former colleagues on-air. "There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for t...
Former Todayshow staff member Addie Zinone (née Collins) wrote a piece for Variety detailing an alleged month-long affair with Lauer in 2000 when she was a 24-year-old production assistant about to leave NBC News and he was newly married. Lauer's representatives did not respond to PEOPLE's request for comment. "Even though my situation with Matt wa...
Roque officially filed for divorcefrom Lauer in Suffolk County, New York. "The case, which is an uncontested matrimonial, was filed on July 9th in State Supreme Court in Suffolk County, New York and is awaiting judicial review of the agreement," Lucian Chalfen, director of public information for the New York State Unified Court System, told PEOPLE....
PEOPLE reported that Lauer and Roque's divorce had been finalized. "They are both focused on their three children," one source close to Lauer said.
Variety published an excerpt from Farrow's book in which Nevils says she was tasked in Sochi with working with former Today co-anchor Meredith Vieira, who'd been brought back to the show to do Olympics coverage, and they ran into Lauer at the hotel bar one night. At the end of the night, Nevils, who'd had six shots of vodka, ended up going to Lauer...
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Oct 9, 2019 · A book from journalist Ronan Farrow includes allegations that former “Today” host Matt Lauer raped, Brooke Nevils, an NBC colleague at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Oct 9, 2019 · Ronan Farrow’s new book Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators includes an interview with Vieira’s former assistant and NBC News employee Brooke Nevils, whose ...
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Oct 9, 2019 · A woman says Matt Lauer raped her in 2014. She’s speaking out in a new book. Brooke Nevils tells her story in a forthcoming book by reporter Ronan Farrow. Matt Lauer on the set of Today on ...
Oct 10, 2019 · "Brooke Nevils is a credible young woman of good character," Curry tweeted Wednesday. "She came to NBC News an eager and guileless 20-something, brimming with talent. I believe she is telling the ...
