NBC News chief Andy Lack was accused of pursuing his female underlings in an “unrelenting” fashion and pursued sexual relationships with them, according to one of the women.
The allegations, which involve former CBS news anchor Jane Wallace, surfaced in Ronan Farrow’s forthcoming book Catch and Kill obtained by the New York Post.
Wallace alleged that Lack was “almost unrelenting” in asking her out “every day for almost a month” according to the book. She also alleged that their sexual relationship was consensual, but that “I didn’t just get flirted with. I got worked over.”
“If your boss does that, what are you gonna say?” Wallace told Farrow. “You know if you say ‘I don’t want to celebrate with you,’ you’re asking for trouble.”
“As she left the show, she recalled him yelling, ‘You will never get credit,’” Farrow wrote. “Then the network deployed a tactic that the public was barely conscious of at the time: it offered her a substantial payout to sign a binding nondisclosure agreement.”
“This is dead wrong and the charges of retaliation are just not true,” a source close to Lack told the New York Post.
Farrow’s book also reports that Lack had a “relationship” with Jennifer Laird, a young associate producer, and that when it ended he turned “hostile.”
Farrow also reported that former NBC Today show anchor Matt Lauer allegedly raped a coworker during the Sochi Olympics in 2014. He has denied the allegations.
