MSNBC president Phil Griffin reportedly shared a revealing photo of Access Hollywood star Maria Menounos at a staff meeting, an allegation that surfaced in Ronan Farrow’s new book, Catch & Kill.
HuffPost’s Yashar Ali published the Griffin scoop from Farrow’s book on Saturday. The excerpt reads, “Four colleagues said Griffin was known for making lewd or crass remarks in work emails. In one meeting I’d be in after the television personality Maria Menounos’s vagina had been photographed in a bathing suit wardrobe malfunction, Griffin waved around a printed page bearing a zoomed-in image, smirking.”
1. One particularly disturbing scene in @RonanFarrow’s book…
Phil Griffin, the current president of MSNBC, waving around a zoomed in photo of Maria Menounos’s vagina in a staff meeting.
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— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) October 13, 2019
“‘Would you look at that? Not bad, not bad,” Griffin stated, according to Farrow.
Farrow’s book, which has had some selections prereleased, also details new allegations that former Today show host Matt Lauer raped a female subordinate during the Sochi Olympics in 2014, leading to his firing three years later. He has denied the allegations.
NBC News chief Andy Lack was also accused of pursuing relationships with female underlings in an “unrelenting” manner. Former CBS news anchor Jane Wallace claimed that Lack asked her out “every day for almost a month.” While she admitted that their sexual relationship was consensual, she revealed that, “I didn’t just get flirted with. I got worked over.”
