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Farrow’s Book Claims Matt Lauer Raped Former NBC Staffer in Hotel Room

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By Pat Savage

Did Matt Lauer rape Brooke Nevils?

That’s the claim being made by the former NBC News employee in a just-published book.

The alleged rape is said to have taken place in a hotel room in 2014.

Ronan Farrow’s “Catch and Kill” the one-time “Today” show host allegedly anally raping Nevils during NBC’s coverage of the Sochi Olympics.

“Nevils said she was in Sochi to work with “Today” co-anchor Meredith Vieira when the attack occurred, according to Variety.”

“She allegedly ran into Lauer during a boozy night at their hotel bar and went back to his hotel room after he invited her,” noted the New York Post. “Once in the room, Lauer pushed her onto the bed and asked if she liked anal sex, according to the report. “She said that she declined several times,” Farrow wrote in the book, according to the report. Lauer then “just did it,” Farrow wrote. Nevils told Farrow the pain was excruciating and she spent the entire ordeal crying into a pillow. “It was nonconsensual in the sense that I was too drunk to consent,” she told Farrow. “It was nonconsensual in that I said, multiple times, that I didn’t want to have anal sex.”

According to axios.com, the book “suggests that after Nevils filed a complaint against Lauer, Noah Oppenheim, president of NBC News, and Andrew Lack, chairman of NBC News and MSNBC, previously said the incident was neither criminal nor an assault. “Catch and Kill” also dives into Lack’s history of workplace affairs as executive producer of CBS newsmagazine West 57th.”

Farrow asserts that Weinstein “was aware of Lauer’s behavior and used it as leverage against NBC executives to kill the reporter’s expose, according to the Hollywood Reporter. The network denies this claim,” axios.com continued. “Weinstein also attempted to use his longtime relationship with Hillary Clinton to pressure Farrow, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Farrow writes that he received a call from Clinton’s publicist, who told Weinstein the story was a “concern for us.”

The book presents the kind of salacious material that Farrow readers have come to expect. As Amazon describes it, “In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywood’s most powerful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family.”

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