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        <title><![CDATA[NBCUniversal, FBI probes Ron Meyer affair with actress Charlotte Kirk]]></title>
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        <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hollywood legend Ron Meyer&#8217;s alleged dalliance with actress Charlotte Kirk is coming under scrutiny at both his former employer and the FBI, The Post has learned.</p><p>NBCUniversal has launched an investigation into <strong>Meyer&#8217;s affai</strong>r with the aspiring actress<strong>,</strong> known for her role in last year&#8217;s downfall of Hollywood executive Kevin Tsujihara, according to a new report.</p><p>The media giant behind &#8220;This is Us&#8221; and &#8220;The King of Staten Island&#8221; has hired outside counsel to look into &#8220;Ron&#8217;s behavior,&#8221; including whether he used company funds or resources to cover up the affair, according to a new report <strong>from The Hollywood Reporter</strong>.</p><p>NBCU confirmed the investigation is underway, but declined to provide details.</p><p>The New York-based&nbsp;<strong>media company </strong>announced the departure of its vice chairman and former president and COO of Universal Pictures on Aug. 18, saying Meyer had admitted to settling a lawsuit with a woman with whom he’d had a brief “consensual affair,” adding that he was being extorted by “parties” close to the woman.</p><p>Sources have since told The Post and other media outlets that the affair was with Kirk.</p><p dir="ltr">Meyer’s extortion claims, meanwhile, have sparked the FBI to contact Meyer, said sources, who cautioned that such questions are often procedural. A lawyer for Kirk did not respond to requests seeking comment.</p><p>According to sources, the 75-year-old Meyer agreed to pay $2 million last year to settle a lawsuit over his 2013 affair with Kirk, who&#8217;s now 28 years old. Meyer, who famously co-founded Hollywood talent agency CAA in 1975, confessed to the affair and settlement on Aug. 13 to NBCU Chief Executive Jeff Shell.</p><p>At the time of his departure, Meyer said he made the payment “under threat” because “other parties” had been trying to extort him. Those parties, THR said, included Kirk&#8217;s former boyfriend Joshua Newton and her current fiancé, director Neil Marshall, who made their alleged attempts separately.</p><p>Kirk was also at the center of a 2019 scandal involving Warner Bros. chief Tsujihara, who was <strong>fired </strong>amid claims that he had promised Kirk roles and auditions in exchange for sex. The claims were backed up by text messages, like this 2015 taunt from Kirk to Tsujihara: “You’re very busy I know but when we were in that motel having sex u said u would help me and when u just ignore me like you’re doing now it makes me feel used.”</p><p>As The Post has reported, those text messages raised questions over whether Kirk&#8217;s sexual favors helped to grease a $450 million deal between Warner Bros. and RatPac-Dune Entertainment, a company owned by two of her early benefactors: director Brett Ratner and billionaire James Packer, whom Kirk reportedly also dated.</p><p>According to THR, Kirk also had a brief relationship in 2012 with Steve Tisch, a heavyweight producer behind &#8220;Forrest Gump&#8221; and &#8220;The Equalizer&#8221; and chairman, co-owner and executive vp of the New York Giants.</p><p>Just two weeks earlier, Comcast-owned NBCU <strong>ousted Paul Telegdy</strong>, who oversaw hit shows like “America’s Got Talent,” following a THR exposé alleging that he contributed to a “toxic&#8221; work environment, including “homophobic and misogynistic slurs” and “sexual comments about the physical appearance of network talent.”</p><p>NBCUniversal has also suffered a spate of coronavirus-induced layoffs. <strong>As The Post reported</strong> earlier this month, axed staffers were sent home in a fleet of black SUVs following the latest cuts. Revenue for the quarter that ended in June were <strong>down 25.4 percent</strong> as the pandemic shuttered theme parks and scuttled movie premieres.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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