Eight years after being kicked off the Today show, Matt Lauer has largely kept his private life out of the spotlight.
But the former anchor was back in the headlines after one of his accusers, Brooke Nevils, detailed the bloody aftermath of Lauer’s alleged rape of her in 2014.
Nevils, who was working as an NBC talent assistant for the Sochi Olympics at the time, called him a “monster” in an excerpt from her upcoming memoir, “The Unspeakable: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe,” obtained by The Cut.
Lauer, who has always maintained that their relationship was “mutual and completely consensual,” was fired from NBC in November 2017 for “inappropriate sexual conduct” after multiple women accused him of sexual harassment.
Lauer, 68, has been living a quiet life in the Hamptons since the scandal. He owns a 25-acre property in Sag Harbor and a former luxury Hamptons property he bought from Richard Gere in 2016, which he sold in 2022.
Even after his divorce from ex-wife Annette Roque was finalized, he is still in a relationship with his girlfriend Shamin Abbas, whom he has been dating since late 2019.
People reported in November 2025 that Lauer is “doing well in his personal life,” spending time with Jack, 24, Romy, 22, and Tyce, 18, and focusing on being a “good father” to them.
Back in 2022, Lauer and Roque reunited at Romy’s high school graduation and seemed to be in good spirits.
People also reported that Lauer remains angry at “the treatment he received from the industry” and “people he considered friends.”
Lauer appears to remain friendly with at least some of his former Today colleagues over the years, including Meredith Vieira, Savannah Guthrie, Hoda Kotb and Al Roker.
Lauer reunited with Guthrie in December 2023 when he attended “Today” show producer Jennifer Long’s wedding in New York City, where he took Abbas as his date. The wedding also saw him meet Kotb, Roker, Craig Melvin and Sheinelle Jones, six years after he was fired from the morning show.
A source told Page Six that “Lauer was busy introducing his girlfriend to guests at the party,” and that “his interactions with his former colleagues were very cordial and friendly.”
“Savannah walked up to Matt and gave him a hug before the ceremony,” the source added. “The two had a friendly conversation for several minutes. Both had a cordial and warm demeanor.”
As for whether he will ever return to public life, a source told Page Six last month that Lauer’s “hot publicist girlfriend” is keeping hopes of his return alive.
“She’s encouraging him to keep trying and she’s definitely persistent,” a source told Us. “They think people will give him a chance because there have been examples of second and third acts with other stars.”
But a source familiar with NBC also said last month: “He has enough money for the rest of his life and doesn’t need to work.”
“No one will hire him,” the source also said. “This story comes out once a year, on the anniversary of his firing. He raped a woman… You can’t recover from that.”
But Lauer has at least one ally — former CNN journalist Don Lemon, who argued that “the public misses him” and that “it’s the people in the industry who are afraid of Lauer.”
“If I can go back to digital, I think I can decide my own path,” Lemon said on the Hollywood Raw podcast in January 2025. “I think the general public would accept it, but I would be the only one who would accept Matt’s return.”
