CHARLIE ROSE ACCUSED

Veteran newsman and famed interviewer Charlie Rose is the latest public figure to be felled by allegations of sexual misconduct.

YORK» Charlie Rose is the latest NEW public figure to be felled by allegations of sexual misconduct, with PBS halting distribution of his nightly interview show and CBS News suspending him Monday after a Washington Post report with the accusations of eight women.

The women, who all worked for Rose or tried to work for him, accused the veteran newsman of groping them, walking naked in front of them and telling one that he dreamed about her swimming nude.

Rose, 75, said he was “deeply embarrassed” and apologized for his behavior.

Three women went on the record in the Post’s deeply reported story. Reah Bravo, a former associate producer for Rose’s PBS show who began working for him in 2007, told the newspaper: “He was a sexual predator, and I was his victim.” She said Rose groped her on multiple occasions and once, during a business trip to Indiana, called her to his hotel room where he emerged from a shower naked.

Kyle Godfrey-Ryan, one of Rose’s former assistants, was 21 when she said Rose repeatedly called her to describe his fantasies of her swimming naked at the pool.

Megan Creydt, who worked as a coordinator on Rose’s PBS show in 2005 and 2006, told the newspaper that she was sitting in the passenger seat as Rose drove in Manhattan one day when he put his hand on her thigh. Five women described similar grabs to their legs.