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Matt Lauer Accused of Raping NBC Colleague at the Sochi Olympics in Ronan Farrow's New Book
Matt Lauer has been accused of raping a colleague of his before he was fired from NBC amid his sexual harassment allegations.
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Matt Lauer Accused of Raping NBC Colleague at the Sochi Olympics in Ronan Farrow’s New Book
Matt Lauer has been accused of raping a colleague of his before he was fired from NBC amid his sexual harassment allegations.
Former NBC News employee Brooke Nevils made the accusation against Lauer when she gave an account to Ronan Farrow for his new book, Catch and Kill. According to her, Lauer anally raped her in his hotel room during NBC’s coverage of the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Variety flagged the portion of Farrow’s book where Nevils talks about how she worked with Meredith Vieira during the Olympics, and Lauer joined the two of them for drinks one night when they met at the hotel bar. Farrow writes that Nevils had six shots of vodka that night, but she recalled that she went to Lauer’s hotel room twice, “once to retrieve her press credential, which Lauer had taken as a joke, and the second time because he invited her back.”
When the two of them went back to Lauer’s room, Lauer allegedly got physical with Nevils, kissed her, and started “asking if she liked anal sex.” Nevils says she declined Lauer multiple times, but he kept advancing on her and eventually raped her.
From Variety:
Nevils told Farrow then when she got back to New York City, she had other sexual encounters with Lauer, and sources have claimed that “she sometimes initiated contact.” Nevils described these encounters as “completely transactional” and said she was scared of the control Lauer had over her career at the time.According to Nevils, she “was in the midst of telling him she wasn’t interested again when he ‘just did it,’” Farrow writes. “Lauer, she said, didn’t use lubricant. The encounter was excruciatingly painful. ‘It hurt so bad. I remember thinking, Is this normal?’ She told me she stopped saying no, but wept silently into a pillow.” Lauer then asked her if she liked it. She tells him yes. She claims that “she bled for days,” Farrow writes.
Nevils tells Farrow: “It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” she says. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”
Nevils says she told multiple colleagues and superiors about Lauer’s conduct, but nothing came of it until Lauer came under fire during the #MeToo movement in 2017. The book suggests that several NBC executives were dismissive of Nevils claims when they first heard about them, and that “The network proposed a script she would have to read, suggesting that she had left to pursue other endeavors, that she was treated well, and that NBC News was a positive example of sexual harassment.”
“Nevils’s work life became torture,” according to Farrow. “She was made to sit in the same meetings as everyone else, discussing the news, and in all of them colleagues loyal to Lauer cast doubt on the claims, and judgment on her.”
And though Nevils had been promised anonymity by human resources, Lack saying internally that the encounter had happened at Sochi limited the possibilities of complainants — and soon, everyone knew it was Nevils. Though Nevils had not wanted money, she went on medical leave in 2018, and was eventually paid, Farrow writes, “seven figures.”
Matt Lauer: Rape Allegations Against Me Are 'Outrageous' and 'False,' Affair Was 'Consensual'
Former NBC news anchor Matt Lauer claimed that the rape allegations from his former NBC News co-worker Brooke Nevils are "outrageous" and "categorically false," in a statement, Wednesday. In the letter, which was published by Variety, Lauer claimed his "silence has been a mistake," and described...
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Matt Lauer Says Rape Allegations ‘Outrageous’ and ‘False’: Affair Was ‘Consensual’
Former NBC news anchor Matt Lauer claimed that the rape allegations from his former NBC News co-worker Brooke Nevils are “outrageous” and “categorically false,” in a statement, Wednesday.
In the letter, which was published by Variety, Lauer claimed his “silence has been a mistake,” and described the allegations as “dangerous and defamatory.”
“In a new book, it is alleged that an extramarital, but consensual, sexual encounter I have previously admitted having, was in fact an assault. It is categorically false, ignores the facts, and defies common sense,” Lauer expressed. “I had an extramarital affair with Brooke Nevils in 2014. It began when she came to my hotel room very late one night in Sochi, Russia. We engaged in a variety of sexual acts. We performed oral sex on each other, we had vaginal sex, and we had anal sex. Each act was mutual and completely consensual.”
“The story Brooke tells is filled with false details intended only to create the impression this was an abusive encounter. Nothing could be further from the truth. There was absolutely nothing aggressive about that encounter,” he continued, adding, “Brooke did not do or say anything to object. She certainly did not cry. She was a fully enthusiastic and willing partner. At no time did she behave in a way that made it appear she was incapable of consent.”
Lauer also claimed that the sexual encounter “was the beginning” of their “affair,” and “the first of many sexual encounters” which were “completely mutual and consensual,” and he accused Ronan Farrow of attempting to use the allegations to sell books and make money.