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Over four years after being fired from CBS News amidmultiple allegations of sexual harassment,Charlie Rosehas conducted his first sit-down interview.
On Thursday, the former CBS News anchor, 80, sat down withWarren Buffett— the chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway — to discuss Buffett’s company, his friends, his values and life at 91.
The wide-range conversation, which wasposted to Rose’s website, lasted for approximately one hour and fifteen minutes.
“I’m proud to share this recent conversation with Warren Buffett,” Rose wrote on his site. “It is his first interview on camera in almost a year and the first I’ve done in more than four years. It is a step in a journey to engage the most interesting people and explore the most compelling ideas in the world.”
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Rose denied the charges in a statement to the outlet tthrough his lawyer Jonathan Bach.
CBS News eventually reached a settlement with Brooks Harris, Wei and McNeal in December 2018. A spokesperson for CBS News told PEOPLE at the time that the CBS lawsuit had been “resolved” and that, at the plaintiff’s request, the settlement amount was to remain confidential.
Though CBS is no longer a defendant in the lawsuit, the women are continuing to pursue their claims against Rose, Kenneth Goldberg, the women’s lawyer, toldThe New York Timesat the time.
When asked whether he physically touched his formerCBS This Morningco-anchors,Gayle KingandNorah O’Donnell, Rose replied, “All of us would in one way or the other touch each other, on the arm, hug each other.”
However, Rose, answered “yes” when asked about engaging in flirtatious behavior with King and O’Donnell. He also said he hugged and kissed two of thewomen suing him— Brooks Harris and McNeal — and flirted with Wei using “conversations about China.”
When questioned about whether he thought this behavior was inappropriate, Rose said, “No one seemed to object.”
source: people.com
