10 January 2014 - Pasadena, California - Chris Cuomo. CNN Worldwide All-Star Party at TCA held at the Langham Huntington. Photo Credit: Christine Chew/AdMedia/Sipa USA
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New York, NY (77WABC)- Former ABC executive producer Shelly Ross has accused CNN Anchor and brother of disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo, of sexually harassing her at a work party. Ross claims that Cuomo grabbed her buttocks after greeting her at a bar, and emailed her hours later to apologize.
Ross, who was Cuomo’s former boss at ABC about two decades ago, wants BOTH of the Cuomo’s to be held accountable for their actions. She details the following in an Opinion Editorial in the New York Times today:
Now that I think of it … I am ashamed,” read the subject line of a 2005 email Mr. Cuomo wrote me, one hour after he sexually harassed me at a going-away party for an ABC colleague. At the time, I was the executive producer of an ABC entertainment special, but I was Mr. Cuomo’s executive producer at “Primetime Live” just before that. I was at the party with my husband, who sat behind me on an ottoman sipping his Diet Coke as I spoke with work friends. When Mr. Cuomo entered the Upper West Side bar, he walked toward me and greeted me with a strong bear hug while lowering one hand to firmly grab and squeeze the cheek of my buttock.
“I can do this now that you’re no longer my boss,” he said to me with a kind of cocky arrogance. “No you can’t,” I said, pushing him off me at the chest while stepping back, revealing my husband, who had seen the entire episode at close range. We quickly left.
Many called on CNN to fire Chris Cuomo, after it surfaced that he advised his brother during the sexual harassment scandal. Chris Cuomo was able to keep his position at CNN and seemed to escape all accountability. His reps have yet to comment.
In Opinion
"Now that I think of it … I am ashamed," read the subject line of a 2005 email Chris Cuomo "wrote me, one hour after he sexually harassed me," Shelley Ross, a TV journalist, writes. She would "like to see him journalistically repent." https://t.co/dRFh6671PD
— The New York Times (@nytimes) September 24, 2021
