2 women’s harass raps vs. Brokaw

FORMER NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw reportedly sexually harassed two women during his time at the peacock network, trying to use his senior position to have sex with them.

Linda Vester, a former Middle East correspondent, told the Washington Post that Brokaw, now 78, propositioned her when she was in her 20s.

Vester claims that Brokaw invited her for a drink when she was in New York on assignment in 1994; she says she responded that she only drinks milk and cookies.

“It was the only thing I could think of at the time, hoping the reference to milk and cookies would make him realize I was 30 years his junior and not interested,” she told the Post.

Stuck in the city because of a snowstorm, Vester said Brokaw called her and told her that he was coming over, according to her diary.

The married Brokaw reportedly told Vester that he was looking for “an affair of more than passing affection.”

“Now let me show you how to give a real kiss,” she claims he said from the sofa in the hotel room. After she resisted, Brokaw left. She also claims he made additional advances a year later in London, but she again rejected him.

Brokaw denied Vester’s allegations.

“I met with Linda Vester on two occasions, both at her request, 23 years ago, because she wanted advice with respect to her career at NBC,” he said in a statement to the Washington Post.

“The meetings were brief, cordial and appropriate, and despite Linda’s allegations, I made no romantic overtures towards her, at that time or any other.”

Another woman, who worked as a production assistant in the mid-1990s when she was 24, says that Brokaw approached her during the winter and, after telling her that her hands were cold, “put my hands under his jacket and against his chest and pulled me in so close and asked me, ‘How is your job search going?’”

Neither woman reported the allegations at the time.

Brokaw left “Nightly News” in December 2004.