Brandi Glanville's Lawyers Slam Andy Cohen's 'Fake' Harassment Apology | B20TN13 | 2024-02-24 23:08:01
Brandi Glanville's Lawyers Slam Andy Cohen's 'Fake' Harassment Apology | B20TN13 | 2024-02-24 23:08:01
Brandi Glanville's legal professionals aren't pleased with Andy Cohen's "pretend apology" after their shopper accused Cohen earlier this month of sexual harassment.
"Any boss who's clearly inebriated encouraging their worker by Facetime video to observe their boss have intercourse with one other worker constitutes sexual harassment, plain and easy, underneath any definition even one concocted by NBC," Glanville's authorized group, made up of Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos, advised Us Weekly in a press release on Friday, February 23, referring to Cohen's alleged misconduct.
The statement continued: "Why is Andy Cohen getting a move? Another supervisor at Comcast/NBC who engaged on this conduct can be fired immediately on the spot. It's no excuse to say that this was a joke."
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Glanville, 51, lately accused Cohen, 55, of being "inebriated" and sending her an inappropriate video in 2022, in response to a lengthy letter her attorneys sent NBCUniversal, Shed Media and Shed's father or mother company Warner Bros, in accordance with Variety.
Glanville alleged that Cohen informed her in the message that he had the "intention to sleep with one other Bravo star that night time whereas considering of her" and claimed he "invited her to observe by way of Facetime."
The previous Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star said that she felt "trapped" and "disgusted" by Cohen's alleged call, especially since he was her "boss" on the time.
Cohen responded to the allegations by way of social media on Thursday, February 22, denying that it was anything more than a prank.
"The video exhibits Kate Chastain and I very clearly joking to Brandi. It was absolutely meant in jest, and Brandi's response clearly communicated she was in on the joke," Cohen wrote via X. "That stated, it was completely inappropriate and I apologize."
Glanville's legal group, nevertheless, made it clear on Friday that Cohen's apology wasn't ok they usually referred to as for his job at NBCUniversal's Bravo community.
"NBC has mistakenly given Andy too much power throughout their network," Glanville's legal professionals advised Us within the assertion. "He is a man hosting reunions across several cities in the franchise, producing and starring in his personal show to advertise these automobiles, internet hosting a juggernaut convention monetizing the 'bravosphere' on the backs of girls and is the capo operating this actuality machine. NBC has clearly determined that he is too huge to fail."
The legal group argued that "NBC has learned nothing from the cover-up at NBC NEWS," comparing Cohen's actions to that of disgraced journalist Matt Lauer. (Lauer, 66, was fired from NBC's Today show in November 2017 after being accused of sexual misconduct and assault. Lauer denied the claims, however NBC faced backlash over the allegations, because it was later discovered the network hid the studies for two years.)
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"Identical to Matt Lauer, Andy Cohen is now part of the duvet up," Glanville's group alleged on Friday. "NBC continues to protect these in energy. Brian Roberts, it's time to step in such as you did with Andy Lack and Jeff Shell and cease the duvet up and do the correct thing. Your legacy and decency calls for it."
Glanville's allegations about Cohen got here almost one month after Glanville was sued by Caroline Manzo for allegedly kissing Manzo, 62, without her consent in the course of the filming of The Real Housewives Final Women Journey in Morocco in January 2023. (The season has yet to air within the wake of the allegations.)
Manzo claimed in courtroom documents obtained by Us final month, that Bravo would frequently push the TV stars to drink alcohol so they might "turn out to be severely intoxicated, after which direct, encourage and/or permit them to sexually harass other forged members because that is for good scores."
Manzo alleged that Glanville didn't attend the obligatory sexual harassment class for the forged and claimed that there have been no repercussions for it.
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"Glanville proceeded to kiss Manzo with a closed mouth. Glanville then kissed Manzo again. Manzo was very uncomfortable," the docs claimed. "Glanville then proceeded to mount Manzo on the couch holding Manzo down together with her body, forcibly squeezed Manzo's cheeks together and thrust her tongue in Manzo's mouth, whereas humping her."
Glanville denied her involvement within the alleged incident by way of a press release from her attorneys.
"Sadly, Brandi needed to get up to yet one more lawsuit that features defamatory, false accusations about her," the assertion to Us read in January. "Whereas filming, Brandi followed what the producers asked of her, and there was no sexual assault. She is innocent of these absurd accusations which have weighed on her psychological and bodily health for much too lengthy and not using a phrase of help from Peacock, Shed or Bravo."
Us Weekly has reached out to Cohen and Bravo for remark.
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