Matt Lauer Biography
Matt Lauer is an American former television news anchor who is best known for his work with NBC News. His first national exposure came as the news anchor for The Today Show from 1994 to 1997, after serving as a local news personality on WNBC in New York City.
Matt Lauer Age
Lauer is 64 years old as of 2021. He was born Matthew Todd Lauer on 30 December 1957 in New York, New York, United States.
Matt Lauer Height
Lauer stands at a height of 5 feet 11 inches(1.8 m).
Matt Lauer Family
Lauer is the son of Marilyn Lauer, a boutique owner, and Jay Robert Lauer, a bicycle industry executive, who was born in New York City. According to the Today Show’s Finding Our Roots, Lauer’s father was of Romanian Jewish ancestry. Lauer said that her father was a devout Jew. Her mother isn’t one of them. As a result, she was not raised in any way.
Matt Lauer Wife
From 1982 to 1989, Lauer was married to television producer Nancy Alspaugh. They didn’t have any children. In July 1997, he married Dutch model Annette Roque, whom he met on a blind date. After five months of dating, Lauer proposed to Roque, and the two married on October 3, 1998, in Bridgehampton, New York. They have three children: a son named Jack, born on June 26, 2001, a girl named Romy, born on October 2, 2003, and a son named Thijs, who was born on November 28, 2006. Roque filed for divorce from Lauer in 2006, while pregnant with her son Thijs, citing “mental abuse, great mental and emotional suffering, humiliation, torture, and anxiety.” They reconciled a few weeks later. Lauer and Roque divorced on September 7, 2019, after nearly two years of separation following his 2017 sexual harassment charges.
Matt Lauer Sexual Allegations
Lauer’s job at NBC News was terminated on November 29, 2017, after an unidentified female NBC employee claimed that Lauer sexually assaulted her during the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia. From 2000 until 2007, NBC recognized three more cases. One of the claimed victims, according to Ronan Farrow’s book Catch and Kill, is Brooke Nevils, who claims Lauer anally raped her in his hotel room. Lauer admitted in an open letter that he had a consensual sexual relationship with Nevils that began in Sochi in 2014, but maintained that the first encounter was non-consensual. Another charge was made by Addie Zinone, a former Today production assistant, who claimed she had sex with Lauer in June 2000 and that it was an “abuse of power” on his part.
Matt Lauer Salary
Lauer earns an annual salary of $20 million.
Matt Lauer Net Worth
Lauer has an estimated net worth of $60 million.
Matt Lauer Career
Lauer joined NBC in 1992 as co-anchor of the network’s New York flagship station WNBC’s early weekday news show Today in New York. He also filled the post of Live at Five co-anchor with Sue Simmons after a year, eventually adopting the role permanently and abandoning the morning shift by 1994; he was replaced on Today in New York by Maurice DuBois. Lauer stayed on the show until 1996.
With NBC News, Lauer’s on-camera presence would eventually lead to numerous changes. From 1992 to 1993, Lauer stood in as a newsreader on The Today Show when Margaret Larson was unavailable. While still co-anchoring Today in New York and Live at Five, he was able to join The Today Show full-time as a news anchor in January 1994.
Lauer took over as co-host of Weekend Today for Scott Simon, Mike Schneider, and Jack Ford, as well as the anchor of the former NBC News program NBC News at Sunrise from 1992 until 1997. On NBC Nightly News, he had also filled in for Tom Brokaw. He also filled in for Bryant Gumbel on the Today Show as a news anchor before being designated the permanent co-host on January 6, 1997, after Gumbel stepped down. In addition to his work on The Today Show, Lauer also hosted shows on Discovery Channel and MSNBC.
From 1998 until 2011, Lauer hosted an annual five-day, a globe-spanning expedition on the Today Show called Where in the World is Matt Lauer? during television sweeps. The theme song for the segment was lifted from the PBS game show Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? Lauer was sent to several areas throughout the world for this episode, where he reported on the significance of each location. Bhutan, Easter Island, the Panama Canal, Iran, Hong Kong, Croatia, and the Great Wall of China were among the places he aired from. The segment was postponed by NBC News in 2011 due to the weak and fragile US economy.
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