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Matt Lauer is an American <a href="/biography/matt-lauer">Television journalist</a> widely known for anchoring The Today Show on NBC.

Background 
Matt Lauer was born as <a href="/biography/matt-lauer">Matthew Todd Lauer</a> in New York City. He was raised as Romanian Jew by his parents. He graduated from the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University and got his undergraduate degree when he completed his studies.

He had dropped out of university in 1979, but the university awarded him the remaining credits by taking in his journalism experiences as an independent study. It was a unique situation that was afforded to Matt because of accomplishments in the media industry.

Broadcasting Career 
Matt had been working with NBC since starting with them in 1996. Before he joined NBC, he did various reporting jobs with major well known news agencies like ESPN, HBO Entertainment News, and PM Magazine.

Lauer embarked on his television career in the 1979, when he produced the 12 News Hour in WOWK-TV, a station located in West Virginia. He later started moving around and worked in many places including Boston, Philadelphia, and Richmond. He has hosted shows at WNEW-TV in New York City and also WNYW-TV. He also hosted the show Talk of the Town in 1988.

His other shows include the three hour live show WWOR-TV’ s 9 Broadcast Plaza, which he did for three years and the’ Day in Court’ show of Kushner -Locke Company, which was later renamed as Trial Watch and ran for two seasons on the NBC Network. Lauer then moved on to WNBC-TV where he anchored the Today weekday news show with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Hanson">Jane Hanson</a>. He also hosted the ‘Live at Five’ show with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Simmons">Sue Simmons</a> until 1996.

His show ‘Where in the World is Matt Lauer’ on Today started in 1998 and it was a very popular one. He also anchored the show, The Greatest American on Discovery Channel, which had voting done by viewers via internet and telephone to be chosen as the winner. He also co-hosted the live coverage of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC. He interviewed <a href="/biography/prince-william">Prince William</a> and Harry in 2007 and also appeared in the ‘Land of the Lost’ movie as himself. He struck a new contract with NBC News in April 2012, the contract terms stated that he would be getting $25 million annually.

Rumors suggest that he was the main reason behind the exit of <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">co-host</a> <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">Ann Curry</a> from the Today Show but the rumors were proven to be false later. It was revealed that the executive producer of the show Jim Bell was behind <a href="/biography/ann-curry-biography">Curry</a>’s exit in what was named as ‘Operation Bambi’. Lauer had actually tried to stop her ouster.

Personal Life 
Matt Lauer married Nancy Alspaugh, a television producer in 1981, but later divorced her in 1988. He then dated Kristen Gesswein, a newscaster. It was a compatible union because they both came from the same working environment. They didn’t have to deal with insecurities or uncertainties about each other’s jobs because they were well aware of the demands that their careers required. They got engaged briefly, but separated later on before they actually got married. They thought that had found something with each other but it ended up being a fleeting love affair. They realized that what they had built was not a strong enough foundation for them to be happy in the future.

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He went on to marry another woman named <a href="/biography/annette-roque">Annette Roque</a> in 1998. They had three children together. After eight years of marriage, they got separated in 2006  when Roque was pregnant with their third child but they later reconciled. Roque’s friends and family were upset with Matt for putting her through that stress while she was pregnant.

Sexual Assault Controversy

After he was fired from the Today Show for multiple allegations of sexual assault, Matt said he had to deal with property issues because of his current negative reputation,  “In my opinion, and I don’t think I’m being a conspiracy theorist here or paranoid, I believe the groups that are behind this are in some ways unfortunately taking advantage of some difficult times I’ve been through over the past six months, and I think they see me as an easy mark. I think they’re trying to set a precedent, and I want to just tell people that this is not just about me. That precedent will also be used for other property owners. This is not just a one-off.

I think that most of the articles I’ve read, John, and the comments I’ve heard on radio programs, they make very frequent reference to that because I believe they think New Zealanders are going to find some outrage there. I will tell people they don’t know the circumstances of that situation. I promise you, people don’t know. And I’m not at liberty to talk, nor would I want to talk about that. But I think they’re choosing this fight for a reason. I think that’s why this fight has been chosen now.

Matt has spent a lot of money on the property and feels that he is a <a href="/biography/matt-lauer">victim</a> because of the sexual assault controversy,  "In the year and a half or year plus that I've owned it, I've invested hundreds of thousands of dollars to improve the property and now a year later they come and say, 'Oh wait a minute, we granted you this lease under this set of rules. We'd like to change the rules, I don't think that's fair."

Matt staed that has made no public comments on what he claims to be false stories from anonymous or biased sources that have been reported about him over the past several months. He said he remained silent in an attempt to protect his family from further embarrassment and to restore a small degree of the privacy they have lost. He wants to now break his silence because he said it’s now necessary to defend his family. He is tired of his family being harassed and he wants to speak up to get his truth out in the media.

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