Ronan Farrow claims NBC paid multiple secret settlements to Lauer accusers before firing him

‘Multiple ones of those were with Matt Lauer accusers. This is years before this is incident with Brooke Nevils and the firing,’ Farrow said on Friday morning.

He added that given what he claims to have uncovered with a ‘paper trail of documents’, it is ‘difficult to believe’ that NBC executives did not know about Lauer’s alleged behavior.

‘It is indisputable that there was a chain of secret settlements at this company that were covered up with victims of harassment and assault.

‘Some of them about Lauer, some about others in the company. This was a pattern, it was concealed from journalists there.