Definitely true about Matt Lauer - my wife’s sister used to be a producer at the Today show many years ago, and she said that not only did everybody know, but that top management had to know as well due to the number of complaints to management, so NBC management’s claims of ignorance about Lauer are complete bullshit. Lauer was a known scumbag, so it was all the more disgusting on the Today show the day after Lauer was fired when Savannah Guthrie and her female cohorts were nearly in tears about what a wonderful, cuddly teddy-bear Mattie-poo was and how they were all in total shock, etc.
Guthrie wasn’t saving Lauer, she was saving herself and other women at NBC. They were accomplices is his womanizing and that would destroy their images. I think Lauer raped the woman who “passed out” and I also think NBC negotiated a non disclosure payoff agreement with her. Her story is nutty but makes sense if a secret “rape” is factored in.