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Tronc Chairman Exits Amid Allegations

Mar 19, 2018  •  Post A Comment

Just hours before allegations of sexual misconduct went public, the chairman of the board of Tronc, Michael Ferro, stepped down, Deadline reports.

“The controversial multi-millionaire, who led the drive to cut staff at the corporation’s publications while negotiating a $15 million consulting contract for himself, announced his plans to ‘retire’ ahead of a Fortune magazine story detailing unwanted sexually advances by Ferro,” Deadline reports.

“The article quoted two women with separate, on-the-record allegations that Ferro acted inappropriately in private meetings,” Deadline adds. “One woman, Kathryn Minshew, said Ferro had agreed to provide a $750,000 cash infusion for her startup, The Muse, in 2013, when he was chairman of the Wrapports investment firm. At his suggestion, they met later that evening at a corporate apartment in downtown Chicago under the guise of talking about a bigger funding round. It was there that he forcefully attempted to kiss her, she said.”

The report adds: “Three years later, Hagan Keppler said she found herself in a similar situation at a private dinner in Ferro’s Aria hotel suite during the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. She told Fortune she thought she was meeting with Ferro to discuss thermostats. Instead, she said she was subjected to unwanted advances — including groping her breasts.”

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  1. This jerk should have been kicked out long ago…demanding a helicopter to take him places in L.A. for the next five years…at a cost of $5 million. The bigger they are, the worse they are.

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