March 19, 2024

The Year of Reckoning at CBS: Sexual Harassment Allegations and Attempts to Cover Them Up

But since the summer, Mr. Moonves has been accused of sexual misconduct by more than two dozen women. On Thursday, the actress Cybill Shepherd became the latest woman to make an allegation, saying CBS canceled her show “Cybill” in 1998 after she rebuffed Mr. Moonves’s advances. He has denied the allegations against him.

Mr. Moonves was pushed out of his job in September. In a draft report of the investigation, which was reviewed by The Times, the lawyers wrote that Mr. Moonves had tried to cover up that he was looking to give a job to an actress who had made an accusation against him, that he had “received oral sex from at least 4 CBS employees under circumstances that sound transactional” and that he had destroyed evidence and misled investigators.

The draft report also said the company had justification to deny Mr. Moonves his $120 million severance, which it can do if it is determined that he violated his employment agreement.


In July, when The New Yorker published an article in which six women accused Mr. Moonves of sexually inappropriate behavior, a couple of CBS board members were not moved by it.

“We are going to stay in this meeting until midnight if we need to until we get an agreement that we stand 100 percent behind our C.E.O. and there will be no change in his status,” said one board member, William Cohen, a former congressman, senator and defense secretary, The Times reported.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/14/business/media/cbs-sexual-harassment-timeline.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

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