The New Yorker has published an investigation that details allegations of sexual misconduct, intimidation and retaliation against longtime CBS president and CEO Les Moonves.
Six women told New Yorker writer Ronan Farrow that Moonves sexually harassed them. CNN has not independently confirmed the allegations.
One of those women, the actor Illeana Douglas, told The New Yorker that Moonves called her into his office in 1997 while she was working on a pilot for CBS and asked to kiss her.
The magazine reports that Douglas tried to turn the focus back to work, but that Moonves grabbed her.
“In a millisecond, he’s got one arm over me, pinning me,” Douglas told the magazine, which reported that Moonves was “violently kissing” her and then “pulled up her skirt and began to thrust against her.”
Douglas told the magazine that she rebuffed his advances. She recalled that Moonves later berated her during rehearsals for the project, and at one point called her at home and told her that she would “never work at this network again,” according to the article.