New York Post

EX-‘GMA’ BIG SEX SHOCKER

Assaulted two: suit

- By PRISCILLA DeGREGORY pdegregory@nypost.com

The former top producer for “Good Morning America” is accused of sexually assaulting two female employees in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.

Then-senior executive producer Michael Corn (top inset) assaulted Kirstyn Crawford (bottom inset), a producer for George Stephanopo­ulos on “GMA,” after a work party while drunk, according to her lawsuit, filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The alleged incident happened in February 2015 when they were in Los Angeles covering the Academy Awards.

Crawford claims another former employee, Jill McClain, was also sexually assaulted by Corn in

2010 and 2011 and that after the women exchanged stories early this year, they reported the assaults to ABC in February, the court papers say.

As a result, ABC forced Corn, who’d managed “GMA” since 2014, to resign in April — with Variety reporting at the time that he left abruptly, stunning some staffers.

“However, keeping in line with ABC’s culture of sweeping sexual assault under the rug to protect its brand, ABC did not publicly acknowledg­e Corn’s malfeasanc­e,” the suit charges.

In the 2015 alleged incident, Crawford called an Uber to go back to her hotel after the other staffers left to continue the party at another location. But to her “surprise, Corn then joined Crawford in the Uber,” the suit alleges. During the ride, Corn “grabbed Crawford’s hand and told her that he wanted to be able to help her with her career,” the court papers say.

Then he pulled her head “into his chest and kept telling her to ‘just relax’ and kept asking, ‘Why are you so tense?’ ” the filing claims.

He kissed her and rubbed her legs as she tried to “pull away” several times, the documents allege.

When they got to the hotel, Corn allegedly pretended to lose his room key in a “devious ploy” to get into Crawford’s room. So, in an attempt to not show him where her room was, she accompanie­d Corn to his room instead, the suit says.

While Crawford sat on the corner of his bed, he “pulled her down onto the bed and pulled her head onto his chest” before he kissed her head, petted her hair and stroked her arm, the court papers allege.

He told Crawford, “Shhhh. Let’s just lie here,” before she left, the filing claims. But Corn would later barge into her room, where Crawford pleaded with him to leave, which he eventually did, the suit claims.

Corn is also accused of sexually assaulting McClain, who was working for Diane Sawyer at the time on “World News Tonight.”

On a flight from Los Angeles to New York in September 2010, Corn

— seated next to McClain — rubbed her “upper right thigh with his left hand” and then “slid his hand from McClain’s upper right

thigh to her vagina” over her jeans, Crawford’s suit alleges.

Crawford is suing ABC and Corn for unspecifie­d damages. McClain is not a plaintiff in the suit because the statute of limitation­s to bring a claim has expired, court papers say.

ABC and Corn did not return requests for comment.

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