For two decades, millions of Americans woke up with Matt Lauer.<\/p>\n
He sat behind the desk at\u00a0Today<\/em>, interviewing presidents, movie stars, athletes and ordinary Americans whose stories had captured the country\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n To viewers at home, Lauer appeared to have everything.<\/p>\n One of television\u2019s most prestigious jobs.<\/p>\n A multimillion-dollar salary.<\/p>\n A wife and children.<\/p>\n Homes in some of America\u2019s most exclusive communities.<\/p>\n And a reputation as one of the most powerful men in television news.<\/p>\n Then, in November 2017, that carefully constructed public image collapsed almost overnight.<\/p>\n On November 29, 2017,\u00a0Today<\/em>\u00a0opened with an announcement viewers never expected to hear.<\/p>\n NBC had fired Matt Lauer.<\/p>\n His longtime colleagues Savannah Guthrie and Hoda Kotb delivered the news on the air after learning about it only shortly beforehand.<\/p>\n NBC said it had received a detailed complaint from a colleague accusing Lauer of inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.<\/p>\n The network said its review determined that the complaint represented a clear violation of company standards.<\/p>\n Lauer\u2019s extraordinary run at\u00a0Today<\/em>\u00a0was over.<\/p>\n He had joined the program in the 1990s and became co-anchor in 1997.<\/p>\n Twenty years later, he was suddenly gone.<\/p>\n But the story didn\u2019t end there.<\/p>\n After Lauer\u2019s firing became public, other women came forward with allegations concerning his behavior.<\/p>\n Reports painted a dramatically different picture from the familiar television personality viewers had watched every morning.<\/p>\n Lauer subsequently released a statement saying there was enough truth in the stories to make him feel \u201cembarrassed and ashamed,\u201d while disputing some of the allegations made against him.<\/p>\n Years later, one allegation would become particularly serious.<\/p>\n Former NBC employee\u00a0Brooke Nevils alleged that Lauer raped her while they were covering the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Lauer emphatically denied that allegation.<\/p>\n He acknowledged having a sexual relationship with Nevils but maintained that their encounters were consensual.<\/p>\n That distinction remains important:\u00a0Nevils alleges she was assaulted; Lauer denies it.<\/strong><\/p>\n While denying assault, Lauer acknowledged another part of his private life.<\/p>\n He admitted that he had engaged in\u00a0extramarital relationships<\/strong>.<\/p>\n That admission made the contrast between his public image and private behavior even more striking.<\/p>\n For years, viewers knew Lauer as the polished family man sitting behind one of America\u2019s most famous television desks.<\/p>\n What they couldn\u2019t see were the personal choices and workplace relationships that would eventually become public.<\/p>\n And once they did, Lauer\u2019s television career effectively disappeared overnight.<\/p>\n At the time of the scandal, Lauer had been married to Dutch model\u00a0Annette Roque<\/strong>\u00a0for nearly two decades.<\/p>\n They had three children together.<\/p>\n After his firing, the marriage ultimately ended.<\/p>\n Their divorce was finalized in 2019.<\/p>\n For a man who had spent decades as one of America\u2019s most visible television personalities, what followed was remarkably different.<\/p>\n Lauer largely disappeared from public life.<\/p>\n Today, Lauer\u2019s life bears little resemblance to the one viewers remember.<\/p>\n He no longer wakes up before dawn to interview world leaders from Rockefeller Plaza.<\/p>\n He no longer has an NBC anchor desk.<\/p>\n And he has largely remained outside mainstream television since his firing.<\/p>\n Now 68, Lauer lives primarily in\u00a0Sag Harbor in the Hamptons<\/strong>.<\/p>\n He\u2019s been in a relationship with\u00a0Shamin Abas<\/strong>\u00a0since 2019 and has made only occasional public appearances.<\/p>\n Most recently, Lauer and Abas were photographed together at Robert Kraft\u2019s Fourth of July gathering in the Hamptons in\u00a0July 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Sources described the couple as happy and said Lauer has been concentrating on his private life and his children.<\/p>\n Nearly nine years after Lauer\u2019s firing, the controversy surrounding him returned to the headlines.<\/p>\n In February 2026, Brooke Nevils published her memoir,\u00a0Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe<\/em>.<\/p>\n In it, she described in greater detail her allegation that Lauer raped her during the 2014 Sochi Olympics and what she says happened afterward.<\/p>\n Lauer has consistently maintained that their sexual relationship was consensual.<\/p>\n Nevils\u2019 original complaint to NBC in 2017 was the complaint that triggered the process resulting in Lauer\u2019s firing.<\/p>\n That\u2019s now another question surrounding him.<\/p>\n A source told PEOPLE in late 2025 that Lauer had begun considering a return to\u00a0\u201cthe media arena\u201d in some capacity<\/strong>, though not necessarily television.<\/p>\n No major comeback has been announced.<\/p>\n And whether audiences would accept one after everything that happened remains another matter entirely.<\/p>\n For longtime\u00a0Today<\/em>\u00a0viewers, however, the transformation is extraordinary.<\/p>\n For years, Matt Lauer occupied one of the most trusted and recognizable chairs on American morning television.<\/p>\n Then came one complaint.<\/p>\n A firing.<\/p>\n More allegations.<\/p>\n His admissions of extramarital relationships.<\/p>\n A divorce.<\/p>\n And years largely outside the public spotlight.<\/p>\n The man millions of Americans thought they knew every morning turned out to have a private life far more complicated than anything viewers saw on television.<\/p>\n And nearly nine years after his dramatic fall from\u00a0Today<\/em>, people are still debating exactly what to make of the Matt Lauer story.<\/p>\n For Facebook, I\u2019d change your headline slightly to:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cFor Years, Millions Thought They Knew Matt Lauer \u2014 Then His Private Life Came to Light.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0It keeps the curiosity but avoids the unsupported claim that literally \u201cno one knew\u201d for 30 years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For two decades, millions of Americans woke up with Matt Lauer. He sat behind the desk at\u00a0Today, interviewing presidents, movie stars, athletes and ordinary Americans whose stories had captured the country\u2019s attention. To viewers at home, Lauer appeared to have everything. One of television\u2019s most prestigious jobs. A multimillion-dollar salary. A wife and children. 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More Allegations Followed<\/h3>\n
Lauer Admitted Something Else<\/h3>\n
His Marriage Didn\u2019t Survive<\/h3>\n
From America\u2019s Morning Show to the Hamptons<\/h3>\n
But the Story Returned in 2026<\/h3>\n
Could Matt Lauer Ever Return?<\/h3>\n