Ronan Farrow Claims Harvey Weinstein Used Matt Lauer to Pressure NBC to Kill Its Story About Him
Long before formerTodayco-anchorMatt Lauerwas fired forallegedly raping a colleaguein 2017,Harvey Weinsteinused rumors about Lauer to pressure NBC News from targeting him in a story,Ronan Farrowclaims. “Weinstein made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer’s behavior and capable of revealing it,” Farrow writes in his new book,Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, per the outlet. He continues to reportedly claim that Weinstein usedNationalEnquirer‘s accumulated reporting on Lauer’s alleged workplace misconduct as leverage....