Kathy Griffin Asks to Be Moved Away From Leslie Moonves at Restaurant: 'I Don't Want to Be Seated Next to a Rapist'
Kathy Griffin requested a seat change away from former CBS CEO Leslie Moonves at Polo Lounge in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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The story was originally reported by Variety‘s Ramin Setoodeh: “Wow. I just heard that @kathygriffin was at the Polo Lounge today when she saw that Les Moonves was near her. She loudly asked the waitress to move her, saying: ‘I don’t want to be seated next to a rapist,’” he tweeted.
Kathy then confirmed the news in the replies.
“I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw him having the nerve to be sitting in such a high profile Hollywood restaurant. All I could think of, what if one of his victims innocently walked in , only to have to face this monster? I said ‘Leslie?’ He said ‘hi’ U know the rest!” she wrote.
“He was seated alone. I don’t know who he was meeting or if he was meeting anyone.”
CBS denied Leslie a $120 million severance package after concluding that there was merit to numerous claims of the former CEO sexually harassing women across the decades.
See the tweets below.
Wow. I just heard that @kathygriffin was at the Polo Lounge today when she saw that Les Moonves was near her. She loudly asked the waitress to move her, saying: “I don’t want to be seated next to a rapist.”
— Ramin Setoodeh (@RaminSetoodeh) January 10, 2019
I honestly couldn’t believe my eyes when I saw him having the nerve to be sitting in such a high profile Hollywood restaurant. All I could think of, what if one of his victims innocently walked in , only to have to face this monster? I said “Leslie?” He said “hi” U know the rest!
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 11, 2019
He was seated alone. I don’t know who he was meeting or if he was meeting anyone.
— Kathy Griffin (@kathygriffin) January 11, 2019