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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Why would NBC pay him a dime?
How about paying the victims!
I want one of those special creepy under the desk rape room buttons.
$30 million? Perversion pays!
Don’t these Multi Million Dollar Talent Contracts have Morality Clauses anymore?
A kid could do his job and they paid him $20 mill a year LOL!
Matt is broke. Spent all his money on dildoes.
He's worth 7 cents a pound a the Alpo factory.
“Why would NBC pay him a dime?”
To keep his mouth shut?!
@realDonaldTrump
Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.” But when will the top executives at NBC & Comcast be fired for putting out so much Fake News. Check out Andy Lack’s past!
6:16 AM - Nov 29, 2017
Who does he think he is, Goodell?
Must be nice, getting paid to be a perv.
He’ll need it for legal fees, but so will NBC! No way would he be entitled to that.
NBC should pay him exactly what his contract calls for. Not a penny more, not a penny less.
Thanks.
“Why would NBC pay him a dime?”
Because there is no way in hell this has been going on for years without management knowing about it. Notice how fast Jeff Zucker came out with a statement feigning knowledge yesterday? He is not employed by NBC anymore.
The lawsuits from this should be EPIC.
You KNOW he didn’t install it himself. NBC knew it was there.
You mean the Comcast subscribers.
My preference would be 13 weeks @ Paris Island. Then deployed to Syria loading shells in a artillery unit......
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