Ousted CBS CEO Les Moonves Told Woman Doctor 20 Yrs Ago He Can't Control Sexual Urges
/“He said that he had a terrible problem, that he basically couldn’t control himself when alone with a woman.”
Reading these words by ousted CBS CEO Les Moonves -- written in an apologetic note to a UCLA woman doctor he attacked, after she was requested to handle the VIP client at a 7am meeting -- I find them just staggering.
This man has overseen the careers of how many women at CBS -- to say nothing of Charlie Rose? Moonves was ousted today without a severance package, over Ronan Farrow's new article in which 6 new women including knowledge about the doctor came forward. The women were furious that CBS seemed to not be responding to the first claims against Moonves.
The women were also totally disgusted that Les Moonves was turning truth against the #MeToo movement, arguing that the sex was all consensual. Yet the words written to the woman doctor had to roll around in his brain some days.
This week I learned that Moonves tried to destroy Janet Jacson over the NFL nip slip, while dishing no pain to her partner in the accident Justin Timberlake.
This man -- who literally admitted to a UCLA doctor -- that he could not stop himself from attacking women became one of the most successful CEOS in America. A young black man would be in jail for life with 1/25th the infractions.
This is why so many of us detest Trump over his treatment of women. He's another Les Moonves and we all know it. How many other Les Moonves are out there at the highest ranks of American business? Women want to know.
Note that his severance package will be donated to #MeToo -- at least the majority of it -- and three women, I believe, will be added to the CBS board.