His new book Catch and Kill will soon be out. Some aspects of it are discussed in this Hollywood Reporter article.
Among the details are an allegation that when Farrow was at NBC and working on the Harvey Weinstein story, Weinstein found out and pressured NBC to kill the story by threatening to reveal details of Matt Lauer’s sexual abuse of NBC employees. “Weinstein made it known to the network that he was aware of Lauer’s behavior and capable of revealing it” the book says. (NBC denies this happened.)
And there’s this in the article, about how Weinstein called on Hillary to help him:
The book presents evidence that NBC knew about Matt Lauer’s sexual harassment proclivities well before they took any action - probably because this sort of thing was by no means limited to Lauer.
To cope, NBC’s SOP was to arrange a significant payment coupled to a non-disclosure agreement - Farrow says there were more than a few of these. (You wonder to what extent the women who agreed to these understood that in accepting money for silence, one consequence was that other women would become victims.)
Harvey Weinstein appreciated the success he enjoyed getting NBC to suppress reporting his problems. They weren’t the only news organization with dirt on him, but as he noted: “If I can get a network to kill a story, how hard can a newspaper be?”
I wonder if Catch and Kill will have an appendix reprinting Lauer’s open letter about all of this. I’ve read it, and it seems convincing on its face for various reasons, but then, talented writers/persuasive people can do that. I will wait for the book before jumping to any conclusions.