Posted on 11/30/2017 5:30:42 AM PST by SkyPilot
Matt Lauer, the disgraced former anchor of NBC's "Today" show who was fired Wednesday for “inappropriate sexual behavior,” once summoned a married female employee to his office, locked the door and sexually assaulted her until she passed out, the New York Times reported after interviewing the accuser.
The alleged incident occurred in 2001. The woman, who was not named in the report, told the Times that she was in her 40s at the time.
According to the report, Lauer was behind his desk and she took a seat in the office. She said he locked the door from a button at his desk and he asked her to unbutton her blouse. She said she complied and claims he got up from his desk, approached her from behind, bent her over his desk and had sex.
Woke up on the floor
Matt Lauer has been terminated from NBC News. On Monday night, we received a detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace by Matt Lauer. As a result, we’ve decided to terminate his employment. pic.twitter.com/1A3UAZpvPb — TODAY (@TODAYshow) November 29, 2017
She claims that she passed out during intercourse and woke up later on the floor in his office. She said Lauer had his assistant take her to a nurse. She told the Times that Lauer never mentioned the encounter with her again and she said she left the network about a year later.
The accuser asked the paper not to identify her in the report. The paper said it contacted her ex-husband who said he remembered the alleged encounter. The two were reportedly separated in 2001 and are now divorced.
The Times report said NBC received at least two more complaints about Lauer after the network announced he was fired prior to Wednesday’s "Today"...
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nothing in there sounds like she protested it.
Not with a woman that’s for sure.
You know about him right?
Speaking of Ann Curry, has she said anything yet? I always thought it really strange that NBC canned her again from her other NBC gigs even after she left the Today show. Those pics make me wonder ...
It sounds more like bad judgment to me, and possibly an issue he was trying to deal with.
Where’s the screenshot of George Costanza “Was that wrong?”
The allegedly attacked woman could have been considering the possibility that her husband could get in trouble for assult or worse if she told him about lauer’s alleged attack on her and then the husband decided to go vigilante on lauer.
I am not. clear however on how the woman had a camera with her and could tak a revealing photo of lauer undetected. Maybe something involving a mirror, in conjunction with a blanket denial from lauer that the encounter ever occurred?
I wonder who took the photo.
“”The paper said it contacted her ex-husband who said he remembered the alleged encounter””
She apparently did tell him....
I’m sorry, but I wouldn’t do it no matter how much I needed my job. That’s akin to prostitution because you needed the money. I had jobs I really needed as a single mom with kids to feed, but I wouldn’t have done that to keep my job.
A woman would not necessarily tell her husband
She was left dead and that a**hole still breathes.
I thought that Ann curry was hott.
Yep, and then we are right back at our desks the next day!
All we heard was verbal sexual harassment from him!
Matt had intercourse with the woman & she passed out!!! LOL
“Back in the day” of Bill Clinton assaulting women, it seemed that women were not to be believed, and he skated on with his life.
POSSIBLY there was a feeling, back at that time, that the victim of a popular and high-profile rapist would be subjected to intolerable abuse and heartache by coming forward.
I am not saying that this is what happened, but this could have been the mindset of similar victims.
This woman should be glad she only passed out, Scarborough’s intern ended up dead.
I think Lauer is a scumbag, but I’ve read two or three versions of this story this morning and in every single one of them it’s obvious the woman consented to have sex so how is it “assault”???
Notice the articles says he asked her to unbutton her blouse, she did. Lauer then got up from his desk and sex with her from behind. Sex. Not rape. Sex. Not assault. Sex.
Yes, Lauer is a scumbag for leaving her on the floor like a piece of trash, but where is the “assault”???
Lol, I thought of that episode as I was reading this thread.
He then asked her to unbutton her blouse. She complied and claims he then got up from his desk, approached her from behind, bent her over his desk and had sex.
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Hard to believe Lauer had an instant erection----more likely the pig diddled himself alone in his office----then summoned the woman to finish himself off.
Imho The only realistic alternative imho to resistance would have been if she were unable to be heard at the time of the alleged attack.
The only way that the alleged victim could not have been heard is if either the room had been soundproofed or if the alleged attack occurred during off hours (whatever those might be for his NBC office building).
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