CNN’s chief marketing officer and Jeff Zucker’s longtime girlfriend has left the company after an independent investigation found violations of company policy. Here’s the statement on the results of the investigation.

Brand new memo from Jason Kilar: "The investigation found violations of Company policies, including CNN's News Standards and Practices, by Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Chris Cuomo." pic.twitter.com/Xu1HQJw9cT

— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) February 16, 2022

It reads in part: “Based on interviews of more than 40 individuals and a review of over 100,000 texts and emails, the investigation found violations of Company policies, including CNN’s News Standards and Practices, by Jeff Zucker, Allison Gollust, and Chris Cuomo.”

But Allison Gollust has released her own statement, claiming WarnerMedia’s statement is “an attempt to retaliate against me and change the media narrative in the wake of their disastrous handling of the last two weeks.”

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— Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) February 16, 2022

Also this afternoon, the NY Times has published a lengthy story explaining in detail what led to Jeff Zucker’s sudden announcement that he was leaving the network. According to the story, it wasn’t Chris Cuomo’s work to defend his brother that was the final straw. Instead, it was a letter from attorney Debra Katz alleging her client had been sexual assaulted by Cuomo which arrived less than 24 hours after Cuomo was suspended.

It relayed a story that had begun in 2011 when the woman, who was referred to as Jane Doe, was a young temporary ABC employee hoping for a full-time job. One day, after Mr. Cuomo, an anchor, had offered her career advice, he invited her to lunch in his office, according to the letter, interviews with the woman and emails between her and Mr. Cuomo.

When she arrived, there was no food. Instead, Mr. Cuomo badgered her for sex, and after she declined, he assaulted her, she said. She ran out of the room…

Ms. Katz’s letter said that at the height of the #MeToo uprising, after TV personalities like Charlie Rose and Matt Lauer were felled by misconduct allegations, Mr. Cuomo contacted the woman, seemingly out of the blue.

Mr. Cuomo proposed arranging a CNN segment about the company where she worked doing public relations. The woman tried to avoid any contact with Mr. Cuomo, but CNN ultimately broadcast a segment anyway…

On Friday, Dec. 3, two days after Ms. Katz sent the letter, she and a lawyer for CNN made plans for her to hand over evidence to substantiate the woman’s claims.

Before that even happened, Mr. Zucker fired Mr. Cuomo the next afternoon.

Chris Cuomo immediately hired an attorney and began hinting that Jeff Zucker had also communicated with his brother Andrew Cuomo. And then the relationship between Zucker and Gollust became public in a January story published by Radar Online. Back at CNN, Zucker and Gollust were asked about the relationship by outside investigators and both claimed it had started during the pandemic. And that was against the rules at CNN which forbids undisclosed relationships between executives and people they supervise.

And that’s pretty much where the Times story ends. There’s nothing about the claims made by many in the media that the Zucker-Gollust relationship started much earlier, possibly before Zucker promoted her to the top of the chain. Maybe the Times has decided to spare them further embarrassment, or maybe they couldn’t find anything to back it up. But it does seem like an odd thing to not even mention in a deep dive story where it would clearly be relevant to the question of why Zucker was fired. As you’ll see in the clip below, even The View’s reliable liberal Sunny Hostin gets it.