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Cuomo, former CNN Worldwide President Jeff Zucker, and former CNN Chief Marketing Officer Allison Gollust and their eventual falls from grace.

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• Debra S. Katz, the attorney for the accuser, sent a letter to CNN in December detailing the sexual assault her client allegedly suffered at the hands of Cuomo when they worked together at ABC News.

• According to the report, Cuomo offered the accuser career advice in 2011, when she was a temporary employee at ABC. After inviting the young woman to lunch in his office, Cuomo propositioned her, allegedly harassing her to have sex with him before assaulting her.

• Cuomo may have seen the writing on the wall during the “#MeToo” era, because he reportedly contacted the woman years later, offering to run a glowing segment about her employer on CNN, which Katz called an “abuse of power at CNN to attempt to silence my client.”

• “After years without any substantive communication from Mr. Cuomo whatsoever, Ms. Doe suspected he was concerned about her coming forward publicly with her allegations and wanted to use the proposed segment as an opportunity to ‘test the waters’ and discourage her from going on the record about his sexual misconduct,” Katz said.

• The letter came in early December, just after Zucker had informed Cuomo of an indefinite suspension for “unethical interactions with his brother,” former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with promises that he may return in the future.

• That return would never come, as Zucker would ax Cuomo by the end of the week. He told Cuomo the mounting scandals were “too much for us,” according to the report.

• In a Sept. 24 guest essay for the New York Times, another accuser, television producer Shelley Ross wrote, “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,” she continued, detailing the alleged altercation.

• According to Ross, Cuomo sent an email shortly thereafter in which he claimed to be “ashamed” and apologized for “putting you in such a position.”