Dozens of Women Accuse Charlie Rose of Sexual Harassment in New Report: ‘He Exposed His Penis’
The Washington Post released Thursday morning its long-awaited story on the sexual harassment allegations against longtime anchorman Charlie Rose, reporting that the incidents of his misconduct “were far more numerous than previously known.”
Per the Post:
An additional 27 women — 14 CBS News employees and 13 who worked with him elsewhere — said Rose sexually harassed them. Concerns about Rose’s behavior were flagged to managers at the network as early as 1986 and as recently as April 2017, when Rose was co-anchor of “CBS This Morning,” according to multiple people with firsthand knowledge of the conversations.
The Washington Post first reported last year on the series of sexual harassment allegations made against Rose during his tenure at PBS, which included “lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.” He was fired from CBS and PBS in the wake of that report.
For their new report, the Post interviewed more than 100 current and former CBS News employees, who described his widespread sexual harassment.
The first allegation contained in the new report is from 1976, “when, according to a former research assistant, he exposed his penis and touched her breasts in the NBC News Washington bureau where they worked.”
The most recent, from 2017, was extensive sexual harassment against a 24-year-old CBS staffer named Brooks Harris when Rose was co-anchor of CBS This Morning.
The report also raises serious questions as to CBS’s handling of the Rose allegations. The news organization claims it never received an HR complaint about the anchor.
“Since we terminated Charlie Rose, we’ve worked to strengthen existing systems to ensure a safe environment where everyone can do their best work,” CBS told the Post in a statement.
Rose responded to the new report with an email: “Your story is unfair and inaccurate.”
Read the full report and the rest of the allegations here.
