Trigger warning: The following article contains details of sexual assault, rape, and harassment in the workplace.
At the time, the story was boiled down to one complaint being made by one NBC employee.
And how bad was the misconduct?
They explained how, for Lauer, it seemed like “work and sex were intertwined.”
In it, Farrow goes into his investigation of not just Harvey Weinstein, but also Matt Lauer.
For the first time, details about why Lauer was fired finally came out and his accuser was named.
So, what was his “appalling, horrific and reprehensible” conduct?
Lauer had allegedly raped NBC employee (and assistant to his co-starMerdedith Vieira) Brooke Nevils.
In his book, Farrow reports Nevils' account of the incident and the affair with Lauer that followed.
Once the affair was finished, though, Nevils didn’t keep it to herself.
“She told colleagues and superiors at NBC,” Farrow writes.
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That’s when Lauer was finally fired.
And it wasn’t.
Many NBC staffers had issues with Matt Lauer’s conduct over the years.
His behavior wasn’t reserved just for the out-of-town trips either.
Yet, NBC did nothing.
Ronan Farrow, too, discovered evidence of accusations being shoved aside.
However, Ronan Farrow reports he has discovered the opposite.
“There were seven non-disclosure agreements,” Farrow explained to George Stephanopoulus in hisABC Newsinterview.
“Multiple ones of those were with Matt Lauer accusers.
This is years before this incident with Brooke Nevils and the firing.”
