Revelations of Matt Lauer’s ‘Secret Door Button’ That Could Turn Office Into Sex Lair

Revelations of Matt Lauer’s ‘Secret Door Button’ That Could Turn Office Into Sex Lair
Disgraced NBC "Today" show host Matt Lauer at an awards ceremony on Nov. 24, 2014, in New York City. (Jeff Zelevansky/Getty Images)
Tom Ozimek
11/30/2017
Updated:
12/6/2017

Disgraced NBC “Today” co-anchor Matt Lauer, fired by the network amid a storm of allegations of highly inappropriate sexual behavior, apparently had a secret button installed under his desk that could lock his office door remotely.

A Fox report points out the device could be used to convert an office space into a “secret sex lair,” and said an unnamed source at NBC confirmed that the button does, indeed, exist.
Variety first wrote about the gadget in its breaking bombshell that first outed Lauer’s lewd misconduct:

“His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up. This afforded him the assurance of privacy.”

The insider at NBC also told Fox that the button in Lauer’s office wasn’t the only one at the network’s head office at Rockefeller Plaza. “Today” show’s executive producer reportedly also had one installed, but the Fox source said staff didn’t consider it a sexual misconduct enabler, but “an ego thing so the EP didn’t have to get out of his desk to close his door for a private conversation.”

But the device could also be used to facilitate inappropriate behavior.

According to the Variety piece, the secret button “allowed him to welcome female employees and initiate inappropriate contact while knowing nobody could walk in on him.”

And now this salacious detail is sparking a firestorm of social media commentary.

In a statement read aloud at the start of Thursday’s broadcast of the “Today” show, Lauer apologized for what he called his “troubling flaws.”

Lauer, 59, said in his statement that some of the accusations against him were “untrue or mischaracterized” but that “there is enough truth in these stories to make me feel embarrassed and ashamed.”

Since then, at least two more women have come forward with similar complaints against Lauer, the “Today” show reported on Thursday.

“Repairing the damage will take a lot of time and soul searching and I‘m committed to beginning that effort,” Lauer said in the statement, which was read aloud by his former co-host Savannah Guthrie at the start of Thursday’s broadcast.

Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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