Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned from CNN releasing a statement: “As part of the investigation into Chris Cuomo’s tenure at CNN, I was asked about a consensual relationship with my closest colleague, someone I have worked with for more than 20 years,” Mr. Zucker wrote. “I acknowledged the relationship evolved in recent years. I was required to disclose it when it began but I didn’t. I was wrong.”
Apparently, Jeff Zucker has been involved in a long-term relationship with a woman named Allison Gollust as she worked her way through the ranks at CNN throughout her career.
Ms. Gollust is currently CNN’s executive vice president and chief marketing officer, positioning her as one of the highest-ranking leaders within the network, closely involved in major business and communications decisions.
Ms. Gollust said in another statement Wednesday she was remaining in her role at CNN: “Jeff and I have been close friends and professional partners for over 20 years,” she wrote. “Recently, our relationship changed during Covid. I regret that we didn’t disclose it at the right time. I’m incredibly proud of my time at CNN and look forward to continuing the great work we do every day.”
Essentially, what appears to have taken place is then married Jeff Zucker and then married Allison Gollust beginning a relationship many years ago, and Zucker advancing Gollust throughout her career, even to the point of her physical location living above him. Both of them eventually divorced from their respective spouses, and yet the network, or at least the board of directors, was “unaware” of their relationship.
Interestingly, RadarOnline wrote about Gollust and Zucker a month ago as it pertains to the firing of Chris Cuomo and the fight over a subsequent exit package of compensation {Read Here}. The RadarOnline article tells the story of the real dynamic, and in hindsight, their suspicions are almost certainly accurate now:
[…] “The talk in the corridors of CNN about Jeff and Allison’s purported relationship complicates the sticky decision to fire Chris,” said one highly placed source. “Have they sullied the network’s reputation? One could argue they have; it just hasn’t been made public yet.”
It also calls into question the hypocrisy of Zucker and Gollust who initially stood by Cuomo when it emerged he rushed to the aid of his embattled brother, the former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
Gollust, a veteran public relations expert, once worked as the Democratic lawmaker’s communications director, and rumor mongers inside CNN HQ told Radar that her past job with Cuomo and claims of a romantic relationship raise questions about why Zucker initially protected the embattled brothers.
The alleged affair is said to have begun while the pair were both married: Zucker to wife Caryn and Gollust to husband Billy. Five years after Gollust joined CNN, Zucker announced he and his wife had split after 21 years of marriage. It was said they had simply “grown apart” and the marriage had been dead for 10 years. (read more)
It’s all an internecine mess but explains the situation.
Former Fox News host Megyn Kelly, a media personality very familiar with sexual relationships as a technique to advance in positions of broadcast power and network influence, notes the scale of what Zucker did to keep Gollust around will likely shock CNN followers. It appears Ms. Kelly has some details of her own; after all, she was heavily recruited by CNN after Kelly announced her departure from Fox.
Zucker’s relationship with Gollust went on for years, and what he did to keep her near him (as he kept advancing her up the line) will be even more stunning to the CNN news room. https://t.co/STe578EX3W
— Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) February 2, 2022
CNN will now be run by “co-heads.” Yeah, apparently that’s a thing.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-announces-co-heads-who-will-take-over-in-zuckers-absence
That just conjures up all kinds of possibilities in my mind 😐
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I was tempted to type mocking sarcastic comments about this, taking advantage of the easy targets. But, well. Good grief.
CTH readers have known for years, decades, that corporate advertising bought on CNN, etc., etc., was to prop up all these leftist networks – is just money laundered contributions to the leftist-demo-commie politicians.
Illegal as it can possibly be. Time to enforce election laws. That means the guilty need jail. Time to break the crime rings once and for all. No middle ground.
Oh, how I would love to see some of these scum go to prison! It would be the grandest thing I can imagine, especially imaging Zucker trying to convince some big dude that thought he was especially cute and cuddly that he wasn’t interested.
Glad that Gollust has refused to resign from the position she slept so hard to get.
Her continued presence will further rot away what little is left of CNN.
I hope she fights it out loudly and publicly. I love the smell of leftist fratricide in the morning…
The fact that she didn’t resign is a clear indication CNN did NOT fire Zucker for the relationship. They fired him because their ratings are in the toilet and either 1. He was allowed to say it was for this innocuous relationship to save face or 2. CNN used the pretext of misconduct to avoid paying out his contract that they would have had to pay if they fired him for the lousy ratings. A 3rd possibility is he did something far worse and he wants to save face and CNN can’t take anymore bad sexual pervert news.
One would think that the Chief Marketing Officer would have something to do with ratings in the tank.
It is true… you cannot embarrass a liberal – they no morals or shame.
Elon Musk pretty much covered this in his own special way:
“You could be on CNN right now. A real news organization,” co-host Kyle Mann told the Tesla mogul.
Musk replied with an exaggerated laugh, raising an eyebrow at the description of the network bruised by numerous sex scandals, including a producer accused of being a pedophile.
“Unfortunately … I’m not perverted enough, I guess,” the space-travel pioneer joked.
Musk referred to a recent Babylon Bee headline about the scandals in which the site joked that the network’s HR team was asking future employees if they “are a creepy pervert” in job applications.
https://nypost.com/2021/12/23/elon-musk-says-hes-not-perverted-enough-to-appear-on-cnn/
“creepy pervert” = enhances your potential to land a high level job at CNN.
so it goes with main stream mayhem
if they didnt have to use these stupid tools against PDJT in the future, they wouldnt be keeping this embarassment going on.
people sleeping with each other is encouraged. not discouraged. we arent creating a no-baby society of worker bees
Who cares 👍
Those who understand that this is about much more than an affair.
People who want the whole CNN Fake News Farce to collapse for good care.
I care about orgs that are designed to take our country down w/ Lies and Propaganda.
noting: there is MORE to this story. No one in the media admits a foul…ever. The only reason this has come to light is because it was DELIVERED as some kind of deflection away from something else much more significant.
Count on it.
START DIGGING.
Zucker IS ON THE LIST> Don’t let him sunset away.
We have scores to settle.
God Bless America
It is thought the Cuomos are behind this.
And that’s the problem the leftists sheep in this country don’t understand. They think because “their side” is “winning”, all is fair in love and war. But eventually, they ALWAYS, turn on each other. Just because they’re not in the crosshairs today, doesn’t mean they won’t be tomorrow. And tomorrow ALWAYS comes.
https://therightscoop.com/its-getting-really-interesting-over-at-cnn-right-now-video/
That’s gratitude for you!
Podesta Island – Epstein Maxwell host
I smell Epstein.
It could be a diversion but, I think Occam’s razor applies. He resigned because it was going public anyway thanks to sticking it to Cuomo on his severance package and he was going to lose his job soon anyway because well, he has singlehandedly set a new record for how quickly a news channel can be destroyed as a business enterprise. The bad thing is that someone left this to fester too long and now it is in danger of being destroyed as a viable propaganda outlet for the fourth branch and they are probably not too fond of Zucker useful as he was. They need someone who can bring CNN back to usefulness again if possible although such media domination is becoming increasingly irrelevant if even Fox is afraid to question election results. The board has to at least pretend to be in business after all.
I figured Zucker would be next but not for this. It was obvious ratings were tanking and have been for a while. Why use a workplace affair as an excuse to get rid of him, as opposed to the obvious.
Something else is afoot, and more is to come…
Yes, it smells.
Like “Maxwell House.”
with only a 500k viewer base, too many holes in the lifeboat to save these losers… this story reminds me of “heels up” Harris. What goes around comes around, hope it’s straight away!
Hilarious related tweet.
no pattern yet?
who was the guy that had sex toys in his work office closet? that everyone knew about. and a push button under his desk to lock the door.
the power positions in these industries are full of dominance and sex.
Why, I believe you are referring to Matt Lauer, the creep formerly on NBC.
Benny
@bennyjohnson
Hearing some incredible inside info about what is really happening at CNN right now — holy shit
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Millionaire, poor, conservative, liberal, cave man or space man, one consistent. The little head gets the big head in trouble every time.
Walter Cronkite, on a slow night, had 20 million viewers.
The little 3 pigs – CBS, ABC and NBC – now don’t approach this number combined.
Cronkite was a 1960s flavor limousine liberal:
Mildly anti-communism but fiercely anti-McCarthyism.
Sympathetic to the 1930s conceit that a few liberal genius bureaucrats should be running the world.
Supportive of a larger welfare state, but stating the boundaries would be in bad taste.
Black people are properly the mascots of rich whites, and symbols of their basic good hearts.
The liberal assumptions of America were expressed and even more so shaped by a handful of people like Cronkite. No actual debate actually took place. Then as now, the debate was not permitted.
Cronkite was the voice, the megaphone of the corporatists who now plague us.
You want a revolution? Start with permitting a different voice to be heard. Start with permitting different ideas a few seconds air time on a one these networks. There’s your revolution..
Do you mean like Rogan?
They don’t need to be on those networks. Those networks need to die.
Look to the rise of independent news and entertainment.
Joe Rogan.
Angel Media (“The Chosen”)
Steven Crowder
Gab
And tons of smaller outlets and independent journalists – The Treehouse, numerous Substack authors, Rebel news, Lotus Eaters… “seek and ye shall find”, as it were.
Gollust = Gollum + lust?
Allison Gollust, someone who`toils loan gulls’, points to her
ex-husband, William Hult, who became president of Tradeweb Markets in
2008, after professing at Société Générale. “They were divorced, but
nowhere does it say when their marriage ended.”1 “The flurry of
activity following the 2016 U.S. presidential election had Tradeweb
running on all cylinders.”2 “Both Zucker and Gollust were married at
the time, and Gollust’s family moved into an apartment above Zucker and
his wife, Caryn Zucker, Couric wrote.”3
1 https://www.the-sun.com/news/4596445/who-is-allison-gollust/
2 https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1505p45l4xt6b/the-2017-trading-tech-40-billy-hult
3
Get the feeling that there’s more to this than the surface announcement, seems like a lot of previously lefty-centred organisations are re-orientating themselves as though they know somethings coming. Disney’ s the latest, with an anti-woke all American strategy, including cancelling woke projects, sidelining some of their prima-donna wokeists and retconning their products.
He didn’t resign from ownership…He still has the keys and title to the car.
It is beyond the ability of my imagination to conceptualize any breathing lifeform having sex with that creature.
Right?? Ew ew ew ew ew ew.
How does Jeff Zucker leave a sinking ship without signaling it’s a sinking ship?
Narrative, getting ahead of the story. There is more to this story than what Jeffie Zsucker is laying on us.
A very pissed off Chris Cuoma claims to have incriminating info on this pair of happy lovers.
https://therightscoop.com/its-getting-really-interesting-over-at-cnn-right-now-video/
why isnt coumo accused of being a peeping tom, stalker, and illegal spying piece of ___.
this is that SICK industry where you can call a private investigator (wife of FBI Counterintel) and she just hands you a file to black mail him, and you and her and them and blah blah blah
When You Get Caught Sleeping With The “Help”
he should of said i Sleep with who i want. the meetoo movment can go F itself.
and then say “woman can choose integrity over promotion, there are a lot of poor men out there to join”
Can I get in trouble for sleeping with my boss?
In the U.S., both state and federal laws protect workers in the workplace from unfair or discriminatory employment practices,
including sexual harassment. …
In this case, being fired for refusing to sleep with your boss would certainly qualify
as an “adverse employment decision,” a form of quid pro quo sexual harassment.
Did Gollust come clean first and did that save her while costing Zucker?
What an accomplished career woman who got her jobs the old fashioned way. She slept her way to the top. sickening.
That Jeff is a real motherZucker!
So…Ghislaine (or whatever) Maxwell is getting ready to name names and Zucker is heading for the hills (literally)??
I don’t understand how NYC news people have been allowed to run the world and the lives of middle class Americans into the ground.
Very profound and accurate comment. What CNN has done under Zucker’s leadership and direction is pure evil.
she doesn’t have to resign?
Zucker quits but she gets to stay? What kind of justice is that? Both were negligent and thus both should bear the same consequences.
Zucker was her boss ,she can claim sexusall harassment anytime she wants.
Whore to the top.
More CNN crap:
….” Leon Harris, a former CNN host now working for a TV station in Washington, DC, was allegedly impaired when he tried to leave the scene of an auto crash in Maryland over the weekend, according to reports……..
…….The newsman faces a total of nine charges, including driving while under influence of alcohol, driving while impaired by alcohol, attempting to elude police and failure to control vehicle speed to avoid a collision……..”
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/former-cnn-anchor-leon-harris-arrested-accused-of-trying-to-leave-dui-crash-scene-reports/
It was the lust for Gollust that killed the beast. LOL
Of course she had two kids and Zucker has four. They’re just incidental chaff in the whole mess.
There is no way that this has been going on that long without many at CNN knowing.
This is a promotion. The spooks are repositioning assets.
Gov. Cuomo just had the last charges dropped about two days ago.
Apparently Fredo was using this as leverage to get 18 million dollars as severance pay.
I don’t where all of them are being positioned but I bet some of them show up in a bigger role. Some will disappear deeper in the swamp influencing policies and mandates. And some of the others will be absorbed into the private sector and only be pulled out at the proper time as a familiar face.
I wish they’d just read their orders out loud as to which unit they are being moved to. This is getting kind of tedious. But at least they make it easy to see the strings.
Confusing conclusion by CNN. I thought Feminism 101 stated that women were equal to men, something espoused by CNN. Ergo, she should also resign if the given reason for his resignation is true.
According to Levitical Law when a man and a woman are caught in adultery both should be stoned to death.
In the 60s, when you got stoned to death it was usually by bad weed (cannabis sativa L or something like that)……you got real happy first, then hungry, then you ate the big radish……you were stoned to death.
Ha-ha-ha!
She’s just as complicit and compromised and should be fired immediately.
Who is Alison Gol-lust?
https://nypost.com/2022/02/02/who-is-allison-gollust-cnn-exec-in-secret-relationship-with-jeff-zucker/
… Zucker tapped Gollust to become CNN’s senior vice president of communications at CNN…
The innuendo writes itself!
Don’t know how reliable this guy is. But, Let’s Hope So!!!
Bring. It. On.
Great breakdown on “The Media”
She borrowed a “best practices” concept from Monkey Wards. She put her promotion on ;ay-away plan.
Whole scenario is comparable to the whoring programs on CNN.
Only hear blurbs on what CNN puts out as news.
Liars lie. So what’s the news?
This one’s bizarre. Just what part of ‘everybody mind your own damn business‘ don’t you get? Is what they’re doing wrong, yeah. Is his lying about it wrong, sure. But not to make too fine a point, men have been lying about such things since there have been men. oh, and women too if not more! Also, were they both politically hypocritical? of course, but they would have been that anyway whether or not they were sleeping together. Note to CTH, you can say all you said, that’s your job, but you should also say all I’ve said as well. that said, I’m 99.9999992% sure you had nothing to do with the resignation, that was entirely the holier-than-thou liberals, bless ’em, what would we do without them? Sitting around all day – free, peaceful, happy, content, self-governing ourselves – Trump might’a had something with his ‘winning, Too Much Winning!]
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“Unaware” meaning “Never been officially told”.
People aren’t STUPID.
Anderson Cooper is very quiet.
The CNN hidden stories continue to evolve as Jeffery Toobin is the only person at CNN who can keep his hands to himself.
Clearly Zucker wasn’t fired for having a consensual relationship with a subordinate (in her 50’s?) . Despite what many may believe these relationships in the workplace are not illegal and are perfectly fine as long as upper management are kept informed and why wouldn’t they be? (Sean Hannity’s live-in lover is Ainsley Earnhardt) .
I doubt that Zucker kept this relationship secret from his board of directors – why would he? She is not some 17 year old working in the mail-room. Apparently it was an open secret at CNN and the media world (Tucker knew about it).
This is just a face-saving measure agreed to by his new boss John Malone. If you are Jeff Zucker its far better that the story is you were forced out because of a consensual relationship with a female subordinate than to be known as being fired for driving CNN’s rating numbers right into the ground.
With John Malone now calling the shots this is just the first of an avalanche of high-level firings to come at CNN. John Malone is more in the Ted Turner mold. Neither of these men have much in common with the Jeff Zuckers of the world. The next days and weeks at CNN should be fun to watch.
i doubt Zuckerberg knows how to tell the truth, about anything.
Im probably not the only one that thinks this is more about trying to save this sinking network, than a sexual issue. This woman was hardly taken advantage of. She should be gone as well. If for no other reason than a poor choice in men, but because the network is sinking like the titanic.
The long term inter office romances and influences are hardly the problem at CNN, but that’s right….go ahead and put more lipstick on that pig.
CNN: “look! a fornicating squirrel! Yes, Zucker has a relationship with his mistress. I wonder what is the real reason for his resignation. It’s just too slippery and virtue signaling to be the REAL reason. You cannot trust anything these evil tyrants say and do.
How many times do people have to point out that they went after Fredo on ‘”conflict of interest” while Zuck himself had a “conflict of interest”? Cuomo is using that to extract his revenge.
The real reason is that CNN under Motherzucker went from first in the ratings to last among cable news networks, and there is a new CNN owner in the wings who isn’t at all happy with CNN’s program formatting. It wasn’t the sex, it was the money.