Is there something in the water? No, seriously:

More from the Washington Post:

Eight women have told The Washington Post that longtime television host Charlie Rose made unwanted sexual advances toward them, including lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas.

The women were employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show from the late 1990s to as recently as 2011. They ranged in age from 21 to 37 at the time of the alleged encounters. Rose, 75, whose show airs on PBS, also co-hosts “CBS This Morning” and is a contributing correspondent for “60 Minutes.”

There are striking commonalities in the accounts of the women, each of whom described their interactions with Rose in multiple interviews with The Post. For all of the women, reporters interviewed friends, colleagues or family members who said the women had confided in them about aspects of the incidents. Three of the eight spoke on the record.

Five of the women spoke on the condition of anonymity out of fear of Rose’s stature in the industry, his power over their careers or what they described as his volatile temper.

Read the whole thing — if you can stomach it.

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How many more of these stories will there be?

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Update:

PBS is suspending broadcasts of his show:

And CBS is suspending him outright:

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Update:

Bloomberg, too:

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Related:

‘Lying son of a b*tch’: Who ACTUALLY buys Charlie Rose’s apology for his ‘inappropriate behavior’?

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