An upcoming book from journalist Ronan Farrow includes allegations that former 'Today' host Matt Lauer raped an NBC colleague while at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
An upcoming book from journalist Ronan Farrow includes allegations that former “Today” host Matt Lauer raped an NBC colleague while at the 2014 Sochi Olympics.
Matt Lauer reports for the NBC TODAY Show in the Rosa Khutor Mountain Village ahead of the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics.NBC News said in a statement issued after the Variety report,"Matt Lauer’s conduct was appalling, horrific and reprehensible, as we said at the time. That’s why he was fired within 24 hours of us first learning of the complaint. Our hearts break again for our colleague."
The book details Nevils' account of going to Lauer’s hotel room two times — once to retrieve her press credential, which she said Lauer had taken as a joke, and a second time after he invited her. Nevils told Farrow, according to Variety: “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.”
Lauer did not immediately respond to requests for comment. In April 2018, he told the Washington Post:
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