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Unlabelled RE: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Bette Midler Accused Geraldo Rivera of Groping Her in a 1991 Interview With Barbara Walters

RE: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Bette Midler Accused Geraldo Rivera of Groping Her in a 1991 Interview With Barbara Walters

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I remember when this happened. Bette spoke out about it years ago.

 

From: Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Reality-TV-Fanatics@yahoogroups.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2017 1:49 PM
Subject: [Reality-TV-Fanatics] Bette Midler Accused Geraldo Rivera of Groping Her in a 1991 Interview With Barbara Walters

 




  So I wonder if Geraldo is done at Fox?  I know some cant stand him and that's fine. I have watched him for many years dating back when he had his talk show like Jerry Springer.

 Back then he was a womanizer . I believe recent years he has tamed down and this last marriage I think he is finally happy.

This was addressed way back in 1991 I bet even Bette Midler didn't expect this to be rooted out of the archives.

Bette Midler Accused Geraldo Rivera of Groping Her in a 1991 Interview With Barbara Walters

Alexia FernandezAlexia Fernandez 11 hours ago

        Bette Midler Accused Geraldo Rivera of Groping Her in 1991

Bette Midler once told Barbara Walters that Geraldo Rivera had groped her in the 1970s.

Midler revealed the alleged incident to Walters after the veteran journalist asked about Rivera's claim that he and the stage star had a sexual encounter.

"Geraldo and his producer came to do an interview with me, in the Seventies, the early Seventies," Midler said. "And this was when he was very, sort of, hot. And he and his producer left the crew in the other room, they pushed me into my bathroom, they broke two poppers [the street terms for the recreational drug alkyl nitrite] and pushed them under my nose and proceed to grope me."

Walters cocked her head to the side and looked shocked as she asked, "Grope…?"

 

 

 


Pt 2: Bette Midler 1991 Barbara Walters on Geraldo

 

Midler nodded and said, "Groped me. I did not offer myself up on the altar of Geraldo Rivera. He was… he was unseemly."

PEOPLE has reached out to Midler's and Rivera's representatives for comment but has yet to receive a response.

While a high profile star accusing another celebrity of groping her would be taken very seriously today, when the interview aired more than 20 years ago, it did not cause any major scandal.

Rivera, 74, addressed the encounter in his 1991 memoir called Exposing Myself, which was reviewed by the Washington Post. A short line about the encounter was excerpted, in which Rivera wrote, "We were in the bathroom, preparing for the interview, and at some point I put my hands on her breasts."

In an interview with the Post for the review, Rivera said, "I went to bed with a lot of people in my life. With all the private people, their names were either changed or they were used with their permission. With the public people, like Bette Midler and Margaret Trudeau and Marian Javits, they live their lives on the public stage, and much worse things have been written about them. I don't think it's that slanderous a statement to say that somebody made love to me 15 years ago."

The news reporter defended Lauer, 59, on Wednesday after the NBC host was let go due to alleged inappropriate sexual behavior throughout 2014, including at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

 

Geraldo Rivera

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@GeraldoRivera

Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation. What about #GarrisonKeillor?



  Geraldo Rivera

✔ @GeraldoRivera

A jerk's a jerk in dating. #SexHarassment should be confined to situations where superior imposes himself on subordinate who feels unable to complain because of power of perp or feared consequences to victim's employment. Shouldn't be used to get even w bad bosses or hated ex's

Geraldo Rivera

 

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@GeraldoRivera

#SexHarassment allegations should require: 1-made in a timely fashion-say w/n 5 yrs. 2-some contemporaneous corroboration, like witnesses, electronic or written communications. W $ settlements in multi-millions slight chance exists some victims are motivated by more than justice

Geraldo Rivera

 

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@GeraldoRivera

This issue is so red hot right now there is no room for any thought or opinion but hang em high. If News wasn't (formerly) a flirty biz then how do we explain so many newsroom courtships that have led to happy marriages?

 

"Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me," he tweeted Wednesday. "News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation."

He added: "#SexHarassment should be confined to situations where superior imposes himself on subordinate who feels unable to complain because of power of perp or feared consequences to victim's employment. Shouldn't be used to get even w bad bosses or hated ex's."

Geraldo Rivera

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@GeraldoRivera

Reaction to my tweets today on #sexharassment makes clear
I didn't sufficiently explain that this is a horrendous problem
long hidden-Harassers are deviants who deserve what is coming
to them-Often victims are too frightened to come
forward in a timely fashion-I humbly apologize

 

Following his tweets, Fox News issued a statement about Rivera: "Geraldo's tweets do not reflect the views of FOX News or its management. We were troubled by his comments and are addressing them with him."

After receiving backlash from this tweets, Rivera tweeted again, apologizing for his earlier comments.

"Reaction to my tweets today on #sexharassment makes clear I didn't sufficiently explain that this is a horrendous problem long hidden-Harassers are deviants who deserve what is coming to them-Often victims are too frightened to come forward in a timely fashion-I humbly apologize," he wrote.

NBC announced early Wednesday that Lauer had been fired after the network received a "detailed complaint from a colleague about inappropriate sexual behavior" on Monday, with reason to believe "this may not have been an isolated incident."

                                                                                                                                   

                                            

 

 

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