Les Moonves will resign from CBS following new allegations of sexual misconduct: report

CBS CEO and chairman Les Moonves will soon step down from his post following a new report from Ronan Farrow in The New Yorker, which brings new allegations of sexual misconduct, reports CNN.

At the end of July, Farrow published a lengthy investigation in The New Yorker detailing allegation that Moonves fostered a workplace where sexual harassment was tolerated, and forcibly kissed and propositioned 6 women and threatened to retaliate when they resisted. At the time, Moonves said that had made “some women uncomfortable,” but denied allegations of deliberately harming careers. Following the publication of the report, CBS opened an investigation into the allegations, but allowed Moonves to stay onboard while it took place. Prosecutors in…

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