Julie Chen stood by her husband Les Moonves as the CBS boss becames the latest media star to be accused of sexual harassment! She even quickly left her role heading up the panel on the network’s popular “The Talk.” That was shortly after the powerful media mogul — who served as Chairman of the Board, President, and Chief Executive Officer at the television empire — announced that he was leaving his position after a series of sex scandals. That included journalist Ronan Farrow exposing multiple accusations of him sexually harassing CBS employees. Julie, however, was quick to publicly distance her husband from the ranks of other disgraced showbiz figures — saying in a statement that Moonves is “a kind, decent and moral human being.” Moonves, however, was married to another woman when he first met Julie, and the bitter ex-spouse has her own opinions about Les, Julie, and morality!
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Nancy Moonves, the ex-wife of Julie's husband, didn't hide her resentment over how her marriage broke up in 2003. While once admitting that she'd never met Julie, Nancy added: "I hope to God I never will!" That's because Chen was romancing Moonves in New York while Nancy was home in Los Angeles raising their three teenagers in the final years of their marriage.
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"I was uncomfortable coming to New York," Nancy said, according to a report in the
New York Post. "I felt that everybody knew about what was going on between them. And everybody did know except me." Other insiders added that CBS staffers started buzzing in the summer of 2000, when the CBS boss leapt to Julie's defense after the newswoman was torn apart by critics as the host of
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"Julie Chen has had a very, very difficult job," Les said at the time. That helped hasten Nancy's decision to hit Les with divorce papers in 2003. "I knew our marriage would end eventually," said Nancy, "but the way it happened was not correct — it was not moral!"
Photo credit: Mega
Nancy Moonves, the ex-wife of Julie's husband, didn't hide her resentment over how her marriage broke up in 2003. While once admitting that she'd never met Julie, Nancy added: "I hope to God I never will!" That's because Chen was romancing Moonves in New York while Nancy was home in Los Angeles raising their three teenagers in the final years of their marriage.
"I was uncomfortable coming to New York," Nancy said, according to a report in the
New York Post. "I felt that everybody knew about what was going on between them. And everybody did know except me." Other insiders added that CBS staffers started buzzing in the summer of 2000, when the CBS boss leapt to Julie's defense after the newswoman was torn apart by critics as the host of
reality show "Big Brother.""Julie Chen has had a very, very difficult job," Les said at the time. That helped hasten Nancy's decision to hit Les with divorce papers in 2003. "I knew our marriage would end eventually," said Nancy, "but the way it happened was not correct — it was not moral!"
