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Nov 30, 2017 · NBC managed to seize the moral high ground by firing Matt Lauer yesterday—at least for a few hours. No one can dispute that NBC News Chairman Andy Lack moved to oust his most bankable star 36 ...
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Nov 29, 2017 · Published 4:38 PM PDT, November 29, 2017. NEW YORK (AP) — “Today” show host Matt Lauer was fired for what NBC on Wednesday called “inappropriate sexual behavior” with a colleague and was promptly confronted with a published report accusing him of crude and habitual misconduct with other women around the office.
Nov 29, 2022 · UPDATED: November 30, 2022 at 4:15 a.m. Five years after being fired from NBC’s “Today” show over allegations of sexual misconduct, Matt Lauer has lost trust in people and has “withdrawn ...
- 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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- Aurelie Corinthios
Aug 5, 2018 · Lack’s next big move—spending $69 million to hire Megyn Kelly away from Fox News—did not pay off so well. ... “When Andy Lack fired Matt Lauer, he didn’t just fire him because he was ...
Nov 30, 2017 · Update Nov 30 at 7:50am ET: Matt Lauer issued an apology on the morning of Nov. 30. More details are below. NBC fired Matt Lauer, co-anchor of the Today show, on Nov. 29 after executives learned ...
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Nov 29, 2017 · NBC's Matt Lauer Becomes Latest Media Star Fired For Alleged Sexual Misconduct. Matt Lauer, the 59-year-old anchor whose career at NBC spanned three decades, was terminated by the network over a ...
