Brooke Nevils
Brooke Nevils
Brooke Nevils (born 1984)[1] is an American journalist, television producer, and former NBC employee.[2]
Early Life & Education
Brooke Nevils grew up in Missouri. She graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 2007 with a double major in Political Science and the Writing Seminars.[1][9]
Careeer
Nevils was a TV producer at NBC working at 30 Rockefeller Plaza until 2018. In the beginning of her stint, she was associate researcher who produced segments for the company's weekend edition of the Today show. She worked on high-profile shows among the likes of Headliners, 90 Day Fiance, and Royal Wedding Watch.[1]
For 10 months during her tenure at NBC, she was Meredith Vieira's personal assistant.[8]
In the Media
Matt Lauer Sexual Assault Allegations
In 2019, Brook Nevils was identified as the person who accused Matt Lauer of sexual assault. She alleged that Lauer anally raped her in his hotel room while she was reporting at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. Lauer was fired as co-anchor of the Today show in 2017 and NBC had kept her identity and the details of the allegations private.
Nevils was identified as the woman who accused Matt Lauer of rape in Ronan Farrow's book Catch and Kill.[1][4][5] According to Nevils, she was tasked to work with Meredith Vieira to do coverage on the Olympics. She alleges that that she had drinks with Vieira at the hotel bar in which she stayed when they ran into Lauer; Nevils claims to have had 6 shots of vodka by the end of the night.[5]
She also stated that she visited Lauer's room twice: once to retrieve her press credential and once because Lauer invited her back.
According to Farrow, Nevils “had no reason to suspect Lauer would be anything but friendly based on prior experience.”[5]
According to Variety, Nevils left the company in 2018 after going on medical leave and allegedly receiving a seven-figure payout from them.[1]
Matt Lauer's Response
After reports were published regarding Matt Lauer's sexual encounters with Brooke Nevils, Lauer wrote an open letter to Variety. It was provided to the magazine by by Lauer’s lawyer, Libby Locke of the law firm Clare Locke.
In the letter, Lauer wrote that his relationship with Nevils was "consensual."
He goes on to say the allegations are "categorically false, [ignore] the facts, and [defy] common sense."[15]
She claims our first encounter was an assault, yet she actively participated in arranging future meetings and met me at my apartment on multiple occasions to continue the affair.
She says I was the one pursuing the relationship, yet once it was over, she was the one calling me asking to rekindle it.
She says she felt pressure to continue the affair because I had control over her career, but she did not work for me, the Today Show, or NBC News.
She said she wanted to remain anonymous, yet she was reportedly trying to sell a book within year after filing her complaint.
She said she just wanted NBC to “do the right thing,” yet she sought a monetary payment, and two years after I was fired, she is stepping forward to do more damage.