CNN host Chris Cuomo has admitted that he inappropriately touched Shelley Ross — who was then a top producer at ABC News, where they both worked — but insisted the 2005 encounter “was not sexual in nature.”
Ross, a veteran executive producer who had long stints at both ABC and CBS, on Friday accused Cuomo of sexual harassment during a company party that she attended with her husband. “At the time, I was the executive producer of an ABC entertainment special, but I was Mr. Cuomo’s executive producer at ‘Primetime Live’ just before that,” Ross wrote in a commentary piece in the The New York Times.