Sex Toys, Penis Shots, & Sexting: Details Emerge About Matt Lauer’s Sexual Harassment

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The details of the sexual harassment complaints against former Today Show host Matt Lauer have finally emerged, and even by 2017 standards, they are pretty remarkable.

But perhaps more disturbing than the details of the actual harassment is the fact that – like the executives at Weinstein Co. and ABC News – the brass at NBC’s news division were repeatedly approached by female employees and warned about Lauer’s behavior. Yet they did nothing, because they didn’t want to jeopardize any of the lucrative advertising deals tied to Today and Lauer.

Fearing being followed by tabloid reporters, Lauer reportedly pursued relationships with female colleagues because he is married and feared being caught cheating. He kept an office in a secluded space at 30 Rock, and even had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside, which is incredibly creepy.

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Variety’s story is the result of a monthslong investigation, which suggests that – contrary to the network’s official story – NBC knew the expose was coming and decided to get out in front of it.

Several women told Variety they complained to executives at the network about Lauer’s behavior, which fell on deaf ears given the lucrative advertising surrounding “Today.” NBC declined to comment. For most of Lauer’s tenure at “Today,” the morning news show was No. 1 in the ratings, and executives were eager to keep him happy.

In its report, Variety paints Lauer as vain, crude and lecherous – a far cry from the “America’s Dad” image he cultivated at Today.

The daytime host was reportedly “obsessed” with women’s bodies and had numerous affairs with female employees at NBC.

Despite being married, Lauer was fixated on women, especially their bodies and looks, according to more than 10 accounts from current and former employees. He was known for making lewd comments verbally or over text messages. He once made a suggestive reference to a colleague’s performance in bed and compared it to how she was able to complete her job, according to witnesses to the exchange. For Lauer, work and sex were intertwined.

 

“There were a lot of consensual relationships, but that’s still a problem because of the power he held,” says a former producer who knew first-hand of these encounters. “He couldn’t sleep around town with celebrities or on the road with random people, because he’s Matt Lauer and he’s married. So he’d have to do it within his stable, where he exerted power, and he knew people wouldn’t ever complain.”

In one shocking anecdote, a producer recounted how Lauer exposed himself to her after inviting her to his office.

On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis. After the employee declined to do anything, visibly shaken, he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act.

Lauer also had a bizarre penchant for playing “f—, marry, kill” with colleagues, a game popular among teenage boys.

He would sometimes quiz female producers about who they’d slept with, offering to trade names. And he loved to engage in a crass quiz game with men and women in the office: “f—, marry, or kill,” in which he would identify the female co-hosts that he’d most like to sleep with.

He even reportedly gave one colleague a sex toy as a gift with a note saying he’d like to use it on her.

As the co-host of NBC’s “Today,” Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified.

Of course, the complaint that led to Lauer’s dismissal was about inapporpriate sexual contact that started when Lauer and an NBC News team were covering the Olympics in Sochi.

On Wednesday, NBC announced that Lauer was fired from “Today.” It was a stunning move for a co-host who was widely considered the crown jewel of the network’s news division, with a $25 million annual salary. The cause of his dismissal, according to sources, was a detailed complaint from another current NBC employee about inappropriate sexual conduct from Lauer that started on a trip at the Sochi Olympics in 2014 and continued for several months.

Even the male employees Lauer surrounded himself with at Today were sexual harassers. As Variety reports, the spotlight on Lauer intensified earlier this month, when his longtime booker Matt Zimmerman was fired over sexual harassment complaints. The two were very close, and Lauer had promoted Zimmerman to a high executive position and offered him a powerful perch.

Lauer is undoubtedly one of the most visible media figures to be felled by the widening national conversation about sexual harassment in the workplace. The scandal is yet another embarassment for NBC  after the network was criticized for turning down Ronan Farrow’s first Harvey Weinstein expose. With Charlie Rose and Lauer gone, Daytime television has now lost two of its most prominent male co-hosts.

Despite Variety’s reporting to the contrary, one of the heads of NBC News said the network received its first complaint about Lauer in 20 years on Monday.

The employee met with human resources at NBC on Monday night. In a statement, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack called this the first complaint about his behavior in over 20 years and acknowledged that it may not be the last: “We were also presented with reason to believe that this may not have been an isolated incident,” Lack said.

As is the case with so many of the men who’ve been accused of harassment or rape, Lauer is also a hypocrite. In one memorable interview with Bill O’Reilly after the former Fox star was fired from the network, Lauer applauded the women for having the courage to come forward and accuse someone with so much power.

In an interview with reports after news of Lauer’s firing broke, Megyn Kelly, who recently joined NBC from Fox News, said she knew ahead of time that Charlie Rose was going down, and she said she’d heard rumors about Lauer, according to the Daily Mail.

However, she said she had hoped they weren’t true.

‘I didn’t have any official knowledge but because of the work I do and the stories I cover and the connections I have in the industry, I have a general feel for – I knew the Charlie Rose thing was coming – and I’d heard rumors about Matt but that’s all they were.

In September, Lauer asked Fox News star anchor Bill O’Reilly if he’d ever sent lewd text messages to colleagues. “Think about those … women and what they did,” Lauer said. “They came forward and filed complaints against the biggest star at the network they worked at. Think about how intimidating that must have been. Doesn’t that tell you how strongly they felt about you?”

We couldn’t agree more, Matt.

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Maggie
Maggie

Explain why people listen to these hypocrites about anything? Do people not realize liars gotta lie?

MMinLamesa
MMinLamesa

Fucking creep.

nkit
nkit

Libs gotta take liberties….

SWIDT

unit472/
unit472/

We need to put things in perspective as I keep hearing liberals say “What about Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump and Roy Moore.

Its unclear what, if anything, Bill O’Reilly did but Fox did settle some lawsuits brought against him. Donald Trump hasn’t been accused of anything by anyone other than a Miss Universe who claimed Donald said she was putting on too much weight. Roy Moore denies having done anything inappropriate.

OTOH we have Charlie Rose exposing himself and making obscene phone calls. Also at NPR we had Michael Oreskes, the top editor, being fired after credible accusations of sexual harassment were brought to managements attention. Glenn Thrush, of the New York Times was suspended by his employer after credible claims of the same. Matt Lauer now is revealed to have been exposing himself and demanding sex from underlings. Garrison Keillor, also of NPR was fired and I don’t even want to think about what this creep was doing! Al Franken was photographed molesting a sleeping woman and other NAMED women have reported being groped by the ‘funny man’.

So we have credible accusations of crude, even unspeakable sexual advances by a bunch of liberals and vague undocumented charges from many years even decades ago against the President, a Senatorial candidate and, FWIW , some misconduct of an unknown nature by Bill O’Reilly.

javelin
javelin

FWIW–Moore was a Democrat when he allegedly had the teenage girl meet him for a rendezvous, Trump 15 years ago was a NY builder and large donator to the Clintons, Bloomberg and company…

I believe O’Reilly was just another FOX conservative biting the dust for being too honest. Murdoch’s 2 kids are flaming libs, so FOX will be another CNN in 10 years when daddy is gone.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

toothpick, denial is a river and your swimming in it. What you are saying is all those women are lying. Are you a media executive?

javelin
javelin

Trust me, filthy scavenger of dead carcasses and wayward garbage, I am under no illusion that only liberals take liberty with unwanted advances and gropings. My reply was directed only to the prior post where a shallow rebuttal using Moore, Trump and O’Reilly as justification for the craven behavior of the leftists was mentioned. My reply was accurate, the perception of denial was just you projecting erroneously.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I’m not projecting anything. O’Really had to pay hush money to his accusers. You don the patriot mantle of morans and claim that he was just ‘too honest’. Maybe Jim Quinn will soon be accused of groping, he’s too honest too
EC

Brian
Brian

Psychopaths always seems to bubble up to the top echelons of power and influence. It’s just their nature. Generally they leave a trail of bodies so to speak of those they stabbed, screwed or stepped on during their rise up the ladder.

I would argue that we may have reached peak psychopathy. Perhaps it is another trait of 4th turnings. Unfortunately the reset will involve lots of blood to exorcise them from their entrenched positions. What happens when those in real power and in danger of being exposed get afraid? Bubbles bubbles everywhere……

Bostonbob

Had this discussion with my 24 year old son tonight. He was in agreement with the fact that these guys are creeps and assholes. He did ask why these women did not complain before. My response was if this was my 21 one year old daughter I would confront them and cut of their balls. He said that might not be the best resolution. I told him I might go to jail, but I would do it with a smile. He laughed.
Bob.

lmorris
lmorris

Nasty mean men it’s only the start

BoB
BoB

They’re throwing the “expendables” overboard at rapid clip to protect the valued inner circle. You can tell when the hunt is on by what’s happening with outer layer. Keep digging.

22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories
22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories

Agreed.

However, as SCUMMY and DEPLORABLE as most of these men are, they are still MEN and men are a team. Women are not on the team! If we do not hang together, we shall certainly hang separately.

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

Two-two, Why would we want to close ranks with you – a ZH washout?
What the fuck can we expect from you; Nazi memes, horse porn, bleeding dudes..?

22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories
22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories

ZH is great but it’s just wall-to-wall Bitcoin, doom porn, and quackery now.

That hurts the level of commentary that used to exist there.

The once-fine ‘hedge can top 70 articles on a busy day.

I just need to take the edge off that level of bovine excrement.

Anonymous
Anonymous

It’s a wonder you lasted that long there. This place has been a refuge for many a Zero for years
EC

Pablo C.
Pablo C.

It seems more like a purge of the high paid, apex performers, and it’s all happening at once so there will be cover for the executives making these decisions.

These higher ups have known about this for years, which makes me believe some of this is occurring for financial reasons, and some of it is just so they can get in front of these stories before they come out in the glossy magazines that folks normally read, while on the toilet.

Just another diversion, so we won’t think about more important things.

javelin
javelin

Anyone wonder if they might actually have something on Trump that hasn’t been released yet?

Bear with me as I speculate— what better way to establish a precedent of “no tolerance” for sexual harrassers than to throw some big name Dem congressmen ( Conyers/Franken) some talking heads Rose/Lauer) some Hollywood garbage ( Spacey/Weinstein) under the bus for public outrage— then if ANY accusations come out against Trump, there will be a unified call for him to step down.
The leftists will say, “see–we demand those on our side be removed when they act inappropriately, are republicans the moral party or not?” “If so, then the Right must demand Trump leave as we did to those on the Left who were accused.”

Just saying, it feels like something REALLY big may still come of this before it blows over…….. The Left (and globalists) are always scheming…

22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories
22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories

I think you’re on to something.

But don’t worry, the Generals are in charge of things.

Iska Waran
Iska Waran

The Alabama senate election is big enough for the Soros/Bezos alliance to go all in. There are trillions at stake and a world government to foster. Judicial nominees alone would be worth shelling out millions for some floozies’ fake sob stories that can never be disproven. I’ll say this for Moore – it seems certain that he’s kept his nose clean for over 25 years.

Chuck soli
Chuck soli

Fuck the bozos

hardscrabble farmer

If that were true then they’d be trying to make examples of them and hold them accountable but they are doing everything they can to mitigate the problem. Any calls for the ouster of Congressman Conyers or Senator Franken from the left?

Crickets.

No, this is not of their making and they are playing a pathetic game of the mess they’ve been handed.

You cannot simultaneously claim that morality is a personal choice and who’s to judge and then attempt to retake the moral high ground at a later date and tut-tut at the malefactors. It just doesn’t work.

SHINMEN TAKEZO
SHINMEN TAKEZO

Here Laur (an enormous cocksucker BTW) went off on Trump last year with the pussy grabbing video; and all the while he is flashing his dick to female co-workers and send them sex toys like this is a good idea

Thank god this information is spewing out like hot lava exposing these media figures and Hollywood types as the degenerates that they truly are.

22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories
22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories

Yeah guy—> hire some expensive hookers like AG Spitzer did and keep your sex proclivities private.

Well—> maybe that’s a bad example.

prusmc
prusmc

Let’s get to the good stuff: did Matt put the pork to Savanna?

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

If you listen to the Pussy Grabber in Chief, he described in that tape the atmosphere surrounding rich and famous men. The women let you grab the pussy. Then they turn around and accuse you.

These idiots get so caught up in the sex-o-rama that soon they’ve lost their ever-lovin’ mind like Tiger Woods. Fucking Tiger got so wrapped up in the shit that he wanted to have a hole standing by at each hole.

You think, didn’t these morans know Madmen is just a show? That we are living in the post-aids epidemic world with women’s libbers lurking in every hallway? Yes, they know but the idea is short circuited by the dick. When you have that much money, you begin to think your invisible, invincible; the sweet dick Romeo.

nkit
nkit

Odd that you would bring up Tiger today
Or do you follow the PGA?

EL Coyote
EL Coyote

nutkit, I had a random association mind. Usually it’s songs I heard on AM radio or scenes from a movie. Sometimes it’s news items or even comments on a blog. Still, I can’t remember to put the trash out by the sidewalk on trash day.

nkit
nkit

Give it a few more years. Just don’t take your mind to the sidewalk on a trash day in the meantime.

BL
BL

A mind is a terrible thing to trash or in the case of the United Negro College Fund….a mind is a terrible thing.

You are up late for a DA…..nutkit.

Grog
Grog

A Waste is a terrible thing to mind.

Anonymous
Anonymous

I don’t mind you, Groggy.
EC

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

Makes you wonder if men or women are going to be unemployable in the TV and movie business in the future. Will we have to go back to men playing women’s roles? Will we only see female news anchors and correspondents? Is there a solution besides segregating the sexes? I guess it depends on what “is” is. 🙂

BL
BL

Vic- Never fear, old Matt will be back on another network in a month or so. Why people watch that mindless shit on morning tv is beyond me.

Chuck soli
Chuck soli

Amen

Mustang
Mustang

I couldn’t agree more!!!

Andrea Iravani

How in the world could it be the first time that Andy Lack has heard anything about this for the first time of the lead employee having a button under his desk that locked the office door from the inside?

Didn’t that seem strange to management? Did they think that he suffered from narcolepsy with a five second warning?

It certainly appears that Matt Lauer’s behavior is within the norm at NBC, and is part of the celebrated culture and perks program at NBC.

My guess, is that the management was more surprised that people came forward, than by Lauer’s behavior.

overthecliff
overthecliff

It is not about sex. It is about power. Progressives have always shown themselves to be monsters when they have power. Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot are the same as Rose, Lauer, Conyers. Fear them they are monsters.

Vixen Vic
Vixen Vic

overthecliff, that’s a very good observation.

Andrea Iravani

Bla Bla bla. One sex scandal after another.

This is much kinkier:
WTF EMPs, LIBOR, and A Government and Fed That Nobody Can Believe In – Andrea Iravani
WTF EMPs, LIBOR, and A Government and Fed That Nobody Can Believe In

KeyserSusie
KeyserSusie

In AA meetings I often heard the question “Does anyone have any burning desire (to speak up before the meeting ends)?

In SLAA you would not hear that question as it could be a triggering question for those in attendance. Same for SAA, LAA, SCA and SA. I think that covers all the 12 step programs available for those who seek answers and relief from burning desires.

Yes, I can vouch that a picture of TW was taken at the gate to Gentle Path in Hattiesburg. I do not know if he was graduated to the PEP program as I was. I admire tiger for his fortitude to persevere. I have known many military men who catered to all the golf greats on and off the golf courses.
Every one (well, maybe just many) of our golf heroes are lucky their dalliances were not widely reported.

I am trying to put together (meditating daily) a post about Burning Desires here on The Burning Platform. It is by nature revelatory and personal. The difficulty is in telling the story and not romanticizing it.

There is a movie with the title of “I Am A Sex Addict”. Caution is needed when watching it as one could be triggered to act out from the gratuitous sex in the exposition of the guilty Jew’s confessional saga.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P29Bhkg-NpQ

Mustang
Mustang

25 million just to read the news off a teleprompter?! Has the world gone completely mad? NBC, what were you thinking???

hardscrabble farmer

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LWB
LWB

LOL! Good one!

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