ABC News Staffer Accuses Former ‘Good Morning America’ Top Producer Of Sexual Assault; Michael Corn Calls Claims “Demonstrably False”

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reports that ABC tried — and failed — to mediate with both Crawford and Jill McClain, another staffer who is supporting Crawford with her own allegation of assault against Corn. Corn, who departed ABC for Nexstar in April, denies inappropriate behavior with either woman.

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report in the Wall Street Journal. Producer Kirstyn Crawford filed a suit last week accusing former “Good Morning America” boss Michael Corn of assault.

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Kim Godwin, the new president of ABC News, said that she wants an independent investigation of how the network handled reports of sexual assault allegations against a former top producer for Good Morning America, according to a report.

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George Stephanopoulos on “GMA,” says the show’s then-senior executive producer Michael Corn sexually assaulted her after a work party when he was drunk, according to her Manhattan Supreme Court lawsuit from Wednesday.The alleged incident happened in February 2015 when Crawford was in Los Angeles with the team covering the Academy Awards.Crawford claims that another former employee, Jill McClain, was also sexually assaulted by Corn in 2010 and 2011 and that after the women exchanged stories early

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorAn ABC News producer who has worked for years at “Good Morning America” has alleged that the show’s former top executive sexually assaulted her and another female staffer, and she claims the network did little to reprimand or punish him.In a suit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Kirstyn Crawford, a producer who works with ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos, alleges that Michael Corn, the former top producer at “Good Morning America,”

departed the company this April, has been accused of sexual assault. In May, he was named president of news for NewsNation.Kirstyn Crawford, a producer for the show, filed a suit against Corn and ABC in New York Wednesday, alleging he sexually assaulted her in 2015 and created a toxic work environment.

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