Les Moonves

Leslie Roy "Les" Moonves (born 6 October 1949) was President and chief executive officer (CEO) of CBS Corporation.Encyclopedia of Television, Second Edition, Vol. 1, ed. Horace Newcomb (Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), p. 1520 Moonves was born in New York City. He is a former vice-president of Lorimar Productions. In 1995 he resigned as president of Warner Brothers Television and became president of CBS Productions. In 2003 he became CEO of CBS Television. From 2003 he has been CEO of CBS Corporation.Andrew Davidson, 1000 CEOs (London; New York: DK Publishing, 2009), p. 126 In 2016, he became Chairman and resigned in September 2018 after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment.

In July 2018, The New York Times reported that Moonves would be the subject of an investigation by the board of directors of CBS. According to The New Yorker, six women accuse Moonves of sexual harassment and intimidation.

In September 2018, The New Yorker reported that six more women had raised accusations against Moonves, going back to the 1980s. He resigned as Chair later that day. As of February 8, 2019, Moonves is now head of his own company in West Hollywood, California, named Moon Rise Unlimited.

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