New Moonves molest claim

DISGRACED ex-CBS chief Les Moonves forced an aspiring actress to perform oral sex on him during a 1995 meeting — and his efforts to cover it up could cost him a $120 million severance package, a new report said.

Bobbie Phillips, then 25, told the New York Times that she went to Moonves’ office at the direction of her manager, who said Moonves could make her a star.

During the March 7, 1995, meeting, Phillips said, Moonves promised to arrange for her to meet with an “E.R.” casting director. He then allegedly dropped his trousers to expose his erect penis. “Look how hard you make me,” he reportedly said. He added, “Be my girlfriend and I’ll put you on any show,” Phillips said. He then grabbed her by the neck, pushed her to her knees and forced his penis into her mouth, she told the Times.

When Moonves was interrupted by a call, she picked up a baseball bat that was leaning against his desk. “All I could think was that I wanted to use the baseball bat to knock his head off,” she said.

After Moonves finished the call, she ran out, she said. Her manager at the time, Marv Dauer, told the Times that Moonves confided to him in April, “If Bobbie talks, I’m finished.”

Phillips’ lawyer, Eric George, told the Times that Phillips is weighing legal options after negotiations with Moonves’ lawyers, in which she sought $15 million, collapsed. In a statement to the Times, Moonves said, “I strongly believe that the sexual encounter with Ms. Phillips more than 20 years ago was consensual.”

Moonves and Dauer also exchanged a series of text messages about the incident that Dauer said Moonves later asked him to delete, which Dauer told the Times he didn’t do. But CBS lawyers recently found that Moonves deleted from an iPad many of his texts with Dauer, which could breach a clause in his contract requiring him to cooperate fully with a company investigation, the Times said.