Ronan Farrow’s new book details Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to kill a damning story about him at NBC by threatening to divulge Matt Lauer’s history of alleged sexual harassment at the network
Harvey Weinstein Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Ronan Farrow’s new book, Catch and Kill, details Harvey Weinstein’s efforts to kill a damning story about him at NBC by threatening to divulge Matt Lauer’s history of alleged sexual harassment at the network.
In a statement provided to The Hollywood Reporter, NBC denied the claim: “NBC News was never contacted by AMI, or made aware in any way of any threats from them, or from anyone else, for that matter. And the idea of NBC News taking a threat seriously from a tabloid company about Matt Lauer is especially preposterous, since they already covered him with great regularity.”
Farrow instead took his scoop to The New Yorker, which published it days after a competing investigation in the New York Times went live. NBC maintains that the New Yorker version of the story was markedly different than the version it had seen, which it claims did not meet its standards for publication.
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