Posted on 11/30/2017 3:37:47 PM PST by Sub-Driver
Matt Lauer’s lawyers trying to get him $30M payout after firing
By Emily Smith
November 30, 2017 | 5:41pm
Lawyers for Matt Lauer are working on landing the shamed anchor a $30 million golden sexual parachute following his NBC firing.
Sources close to the disgraced newsman say his team is working on a plan to get him paid through the remainder of his $20 million a year contract – which still has a year and a half to run. Modal Trigger Matt Lauer and Eddie Burke Jr.MATT AGUDO/INSTARimages.com
A source close to Lauer’s team said, “They are currently looking at his contract and determining whether the claims against him, which clearly would affect any moral clause in his contract and his ensuing termination would cut off his contractual rights to be paid through to the end of his contract.”
NBC had in 2016 renegotiated a new deal with Lauer valued at $20 million a year which would have kept him on the air through the end of 2018.
But moral clauses are often included in TV contracts and specify that talent could be fired without pay if they bring the company into any disrepute.
Another TV insider said, “There is no way Matt is getting paid. There has been an irrevocable breach of Matt’s contract, there is a moral clause that says if he brings the company into disrepute — which he clearly has — NBC can terminate his employment immediately without pay and they do not have to pay out his contract.”
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Outpatient sex rehab means he goes back to his hotel at night and orders room service and hookers.
Did the guy who installed the Door Lock Rape Button under Lauer’s Desk get canned too, or is he the same guy who installed the one that Moneypenny uses to Buzz in 007 when he has a meeting with M?
Apparently his did; but these clauses seem to be ‘more honored in the breach” - until things get too hot and it’s expedient to enforce them.
Creepo-RAT greed.
I hate both NBC and Lauer because they’re both liberal shills. Whomever gets destroyed between these 2 clowns will still be fun.
But...but....he’s so sorry......(that he got caught)
How could Matt Lauer bring NBC to any lower disrepute than the hull-crushing abyss of disrepute into which NBC has already sunk itself?
“Must be nice, getting paid to be a perv.”
There are union teachers in NY who can’t be fired and aren’t allowed, by law, to be in the same building with children. They come to “work” each day, just in a building with no children. They sit and do whatever they want. One of them was running a successful real-estate business and still being paid as a teacher. Life is full of things like this.
“Don’t these Multi Million Dollar Talent Contracts have Morality Clauses anymore?”
Exactly what I was thinking.
What victims? The one in Sochi who went to his hotel room for apres ski? The one in his office who claims he said “unbutton your blouse”, and so ....she did and bent over the desk?
I’m not seeing victims, I’m seeing intramural sports and one side has decided it’s “payday”.
“You KNOW he didn’t install it himself. NBC knew it was there.”
And nobody here works in a workplace where doors are secure and you have to be buzzed in? Sorry, this is a standard thing in offices that do not want unwanted visitors. Especially ones that have a celebrity or something that attracts a lot of morons.
Disgusted at Lauer politically and am glad to see him implode. But I’m not buying the new Salem witchcraft hysteria the women are putting out this last month or two.
With any luck there’s a morals clause in the contract that will set fire to any golden parachute as it opens. Nice visual.
Yep....... NBC allowed rape to occur in Lauer’s office
All sorts of such activity was also allowed on NBC premises
Comcast has extremely deep pockets
If they have to pay him anything they should say
We have to pay $30 million to get Lauer to leave. We’ll give it to him or his victims - his choice.
“Did the guy who installed the Door Lock Rape Button under Lauer’s Desk get canned too”
Yeah, because it’s so -unheard of- for the occupant of an office to have the ability to restrict entry. lol....the drama is funny though.
“My preference would be 13 weeks @ Paris Island. Then deployed to Syria loading shells in a artillery unit......”
Yeah, the death penalty for office sex. Any other bright ideas?
What about jail.....for rape?
I am hoping his accusers sue him for every dime he has.
If he brings nbc into disrepute??? LOL! Now that’s funny.
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