WarnerMedia CEO Jason Kilar announced to CNN on Tuesday that Gollust had resigned as chief marketing officer after the inquiry found ethical violations as a result of the relationship. CNN media correspondent Brian Stelter shared the WarnerMedia memo on Twitter.
Gollust was initially going to maintain her role after Zucker resigned earlier this month for failing to disclose the relationship during an investigation into matters surrounding the firing of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo.
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Gollust penned a letter to CNN colleagues claiming that WarnerMedia, CNN's parent company, guaranteed her that she could announce her resignation. "WarnerMedia's statement tonight is an attempt to retaliate against me and change the media narrative in the wake of their disastrous handling of the past two weeks," she wrote in the statement obtained by Daily Beast editor Lachlan Cartwright. "It is deeply disappointing that after spending the last nine years defending and upholding CNN's highest standards of journalistic integrity, I would be treated this way as I leave."
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Zucker oversaw Cuomo's firing after it was revealed that he aided his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, in fending off sexual harassment accusations. Gollust formerly worked for Andrew Cuomo as a communications director in 2012 and was hired at CNN a month after Zucker in 2013.
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The investigation, which Kilar confirmed concluded this weekend, found considerable ethical lapses and breaches of company policy involving entanglement with the Cuomo Administration and inappropriate sexual behavior among the Cuomo brothers, Zucker, and Gollust.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that while Chris Cuomo was initially suspended in November for using his journalistic resources against his brother's accusers, he was fired when he was accused of sexual assault.
Chris Cuomo's lawyers later requested that CNN preserve all documents detailing the interactions between network employees and the governor's office employees, which would have exposed that Zucker had allegedly coached Andrew Cuomo to use his COVID-19 briefings to attack former President Trump. Representatives for Chris Cuomo and Zucker have denied the allegations they faced.
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The investigation into Chris Cuomo found that in addition to Zucker's relationship with the former governor, he also hadn't disclosed his relationship with Gollust, which was forbidden by company policy as he was her supervisor. Combined with evaporating confidence in his leadership by new Discovery executives, it was enough to force both Zucker and Gollust out of CNN.
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