The Cuomo Brothers Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves

Written By BlabberBuzz | Saturday, 25 September 2021 03:45 PM
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The Cuomo Brothers Can't Keep Their Hands To Themselves

A veteran television journalist blamed CNN's Chris Cuomo on Friday for once sexually harassing her when they worked together at ABC News and she feels the "Cuomo Prime Time" namesake has to "journalistically repent" for his behavior.

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In a guest essay for the New York Times, former executive producer Shelley Ross described an event where Cuomo, who came under fire this year for giving private advice to his brother New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo throughout his sexual harassment scandal, squeezed the cheek of her buttock without her consent in 2005. She further produced an email where Chris Cuomo seemed to admit to the incident and apologize for his behavior.

"At the time, I was the executive producer of an ABC entertainment special, but I was Mr. Cuomo’s executive producer at 'Primetime Live' just before that," she announced. "I was at the party with my husband, who sat behind me on an ottoman sipping his Diet Coke as I spoke with work friends. When Mr. Cuomo entered the Upper West Side bar, he walked toward me and greeted me with a strong bear hug while lowering one hand to firmly grab and squeeze the cheek of my buttock."

Ross announced that Cuomo told her, "I can do this now that you’re no longer my boss" and did it "with a kind of cocky arrogance." Ross stated she told him he couldn't, pushed him off her, and revealed her husband was right behind her, and they immediately left the party, which was celebrating an ABC colleague's departure.

Ross printed a copy of an email from Cuomo the same evening where he announced he was "ashamed" of his behavior and even noted actor Christian Slater had been arrested for similar conduct.

"[T]hough my hearty greeting was a function of being glad to see you … christian slater got arrested for a (kind of) similar act, (though borne of an alleged negative intent, unlike my own)…and as a husband I can empathize with not liking to see my wife patted as such," he wrote.

Cuomo, who was 34 at the time of the alleged event, asked Ross to pass along an apology to her "very good and noble husband," and also "I apologize to you as well, for even putting you in su]ch a position." He added he would remember his lesson the next time he was happy to see her.

"Mr. Cuomo may say this is a sincere apology. I’ve always seen it as an attempt to provide himself with legal and moral coverage to evade accountability," Ross wrote.

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