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Brandi Glanville’s legal professionals are usually not happy with Andy Cohen’s “pretend apology” after their shopper accused Cohen earlier this month of sexual harassment.
“Any boss who’s clearly inebriated encouraging their worker by Facetime video to observe their boss have intercourse with one other worker constitutes sexual harassment, plain and easy, underneath any definition even one concocted by NBC,” Glanville’s authorized crew, made up of Bryan Freedman and Mark Geragos, instructed Us Weekly in a press release on Friday, February 23, referring to Cohen’s alleged misconduct.
The assertion continued: “Why is Andy Cohen getting a cross? Another supervisor at Comcast/NBC who engaged on this habits can be fired instantly on the spot. It’s no excuse to say that this was a joke.”
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Glanville, 51, just lately accused Cohen, 55, of being “inebriated” and sending her an inappropriate video in 2022, in line with a prolonged letter her attorneys despatched NBCUniversal, Shed Media and Shed’s mother or father firm Warner Bros, in line with Selection.
Glanville alleged that Cohen instructed her within the message that he had the “intention to sleep with one other Bravo star that night time whereas considering of her” and claimed he “invited her to observe through Facetime.”
The previous Actual Housewives of Beverly Hills star said that she felt “trapped” and “disgusted” by Cohen’s alleged name, particularly since he was her “boss” on the time.
Cohen responded to the allegations through social media on Thursday, February 22, denying that it was something greater than a prank.
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“The video reveals Kate Chastain and I very clearly joking to Brandi. It was completely meant in jest, and Brandi’s response clearly communicated she was in on the joke,” Cohen wrote through X. “That stated, it was completely inappropriate and I apologize.”
Glanville’s authorized crew, nevertheless, made it clear on Friday that Cohen’s apology wasn’t ok and so they known as for his job at NBCUniversal’s Bravo community.
“NBC has mistakenly given Andy an excessive amount of energy throughout their community,” Glanville’s legal professionals instructed Us within the assertion. “He’s a person internet hosting reunions throughout a number of cities within the franchise, producing and starring in his personal present to advertise these autos, internet hosting a juggernaut convention monetizing the ‘bravosphere’ on the backs of girls and is the capo operating this actuality machine. NBC has clearly determined that he’s too huge to fail.”
The authorized group argued that “NBC has discovered nothing from the cover-up at NBC NEWS,” evaluating Cohen’s actions to that of disgraced journalist Matt Lauer. (Lauer, 66, was fired from NBC’s Right this moment present in November 2017 after being accused of sexual misconduct and assault. Lauer denied the claims, however NBC confronted backlash over the allegations, because it was later discovered the community hid the studies for 2 years.)
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“Similar to Matt Lauer, Andy Cohen is now a part of the quilt up,” Glanville’s crew alleged on Friday. “NBC continues to guard these in energy. Brian Roberts, it’s time to step in such as you did with Andy Lack and Jeff Shell and cease the quilt up and do the precise factor. Your legacy and decency calls for it.”
Glanville’s allegations about Cohen got here almost one month after Glanville was sued by Caroline Manzo for allegedly kissing Manzo, 62, with out her consent throughout the filming of The Actual Housewives Final Ladies Journey in Morocco in January 2023. (The season has but to air within the wake of the allegations.)
Manzo claimed in courtroom paperwork obtained by Us final month, that Bravo would frequently push the TV stars to drink alcohol so they might “turn into severely intoxicated, after which direct, encourage and/or enable them to sexually harass different forged members as a result of that’s for good scores.”
Manzo alleged that Glanville didn’t attend the necessary sexual harassment class for the forged and claimed that there have been no repercussions for it.
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“Glanville proceeded to kiss Manzo with a closed mouth. Glanville then kissed Manzo once more. Manzo was very uncomfortable,” the docs claimed. “Glanville then proceeded to mount Manzo on the sofa holding Manzo down together with her physique, forcibly squeezed Manzo’s cheeks collectively and thrust her tongue in Manzo’s mouth, whereas humping her.”
Glanville denied her involvement within the alleged incident through a press release from her attorneys.
“Sadly, Brandi needed to get up to one more lawsuit that features defamatory, false accusations about her,” the assertion to Us learn in January. “Whereas filming, Brandi adopted what the producers requested of her, and there was no sexual assault. She is harmless of those absurd accusations which have weighed on her psychological and bodily well being for a lot too lengthy with out a phrase of help from Peacock, Shed or Bravo.”
Us Weekly has reached out to Cohen and Bravo for remark.
