We pay for videos too. Click here to upload yours. Jump directly to the content. Sign in. Not long after the divorce was finalized, Lauer reportedly began dating marketing and public relations executive Shamin Abas.
She was the previously unnamed former NBC News employee whose complaint contributed to Lauer's firing. However, the full breadth of Nevils's allegations had never been made public, and in Farrow's book she reportedly alleges that she was anally raped by Lauer in his hotel room while attending the Sochi Olympics in on assignment for NBC. Our hearts break again for our colleague.
In a statement to Variety through his lawyer, Lauer denied this allegation, saying that it is "categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense. Lauer denied Nevils's version of events as presented in the book at the time of publication, and in his Mediaite piece accused Farrow of bias against NBC.
The piece, Lauer noted, was originally intended to publish in November , shortly after Farrow's book release, but was delayed, instead coming on the heels of a story in the New York Times which also criticized Farrow's methods.
Lauer has also accused Farrow of sensationalism, misleading language, and presenting stories "in a way that would suit his activist goals, as opposed to any kind of journalistic standards. Catch and Kill was thoroughly reported and fact-checked, including with Matt Lauer himself. In April of the disgraced anchor made a statement to the Washington Post in which he said , "I have made no public comments on the many false stories from anonymous or biased sources that have been reported about me over these past several months I remained silent in an attempt to protect my family from further embarrassment and to restore a small degree of the privacy they have lost.
But defending my family now requires me to speak up. However I want to make it perfectly clear that any allegations or reports of coercive, aggressive or abusive actions on my part, at any time, are absolutely false. He followed that up that May in response to a report released by NBCUniversal following its internal investigation into the misconduct allegations that cost him his job. In a statement to Variety , Lauer said he was fired after "admitting to past relationships with co-workers," but expressed his disagreement with "certain aspects" of the report.
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Expand the sub menu More Variety. While writing her memoir, Couric was told by Stanford University sociologist and gender studies professor Marianne Cooper that permissive environments could give way to more severe transgressions. Couric said that often times "there was a permissive environment" in workplaces during the '90s. Though Couric says she was never directly approached by anyone about Lauer's alleged misconduct at the time, she said there's been "many times" she's helped or advised women who were in "uncomfortable situations" and "gone to bat for them," and said she "would have done the same thing" had she known about the sexual assault allegations against Lauer while working on the "Today" show.
Couric began her journalism career in , when the industry was largely dominated by men. In her memoir "Going There," she writes about how men would quickly brush her off as she was starting out.
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