NEW: Ronan Farrow’s New Book Alleges Matt Lauer Raped Producer for NBC News’ Meredith Vieira
Wednesday, October 09, 2019
Investigative reporter Ronan Farrow, one of the leading journalists to uncover sexual abuse in the media and entertainment business is now reporting in his new book that former Today Show host raped a co-worker — Brooke Nevils, who served as a producer to Meredith Vieira.
Vieira is a Rhode Island native and both she and Lauer early in their careers worked at WJAR-10 in Providence. They were were reunited at NBC.
According to Variety, “In Sochi, Nevils was tasked with working with former Today co-anchor Meredith Vieira, who’d been brought back to the show to do Olympics coverage. In her account, one night over drinks with Vieira at the hotel bar where the NBC News team was staying, they ran into Lauer, who joined them.”
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTThe report is that, ‘At the end of the night, Nevils, who’d had six shots of vodka, ended up going 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. Nevils, Farrow writes, ‘had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience.’”
According to Variety’s report, “Once she was in his hotel room, Nevils alleges, Lauer — who was wearing a T-shirt and boxers — pushed her against the door and kissed her. He then pushed her onto the bed, ‘flipping her over, asking if she liked anal sex, Farrow writes. ‘She said that she declined several times.’
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.
According to CNN, three years later Nevils confided to Vieira about the incident and she told Nevils to hire an attorney and report the incident.
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